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When MRI throughput means more than revenue 4/11/2006 Tobias Gilk writes that centers in Canada are overloaded with patients and have huge back-logs. His contention is that proper management of patient appointments and the MRI protocols could drastically reduce this back-log.

CT Radiation Update

CCTA radiation dose
A fresh look by Aunt Minnie on how to reduce the radiation dose in Coronary CT angiography performed on MSCT scanners. Good control of heart rate and use of ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) radiation parameters is the key. Read all about it at http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=car&Pag=dis&ItemId=71608&wf=1062

Radiation reference levels
A new article on dose reduction for routine CT scanning is a multicenter study that proposes reference levels of radiation dose and methods of dose reduction, albeit maintaining diagnostic confidence. See it before print in Radiology at http://radiology.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/abstract/2403050993v1?papetoc

Radiology outsourcing

Radiology outsourcing
The average American may adopt a "What me worry" attitude about Radiology outsourcing to India, but at heart they are a wirried lot, despite the fact that strict licencing requirements necessarily restrict the amount of work outsourced. Read about it in the New York Times on http://econblog.aplia.com/2006/04/why-dont-we-outsource-more-radiology.html

BJR abstract

British Journal of Radiology (2006) 79, 285-294
Review article
What are the risks from medical X-rays and other low dose radiation? B F Wall, BSc, G M Kendall, PhD, A A Edwards, MSc, S Bouffler, PhD, C R Muirhead, PhD and J R Meara, FFPH
Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon. OX11 0RQ, UK
This article outlines the risks of long-term low dosage radiation. Check it out....
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Journal Updates

radiologist india
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British Journal of Radiology (2006) 79, 368-371© 2006

Acute adverse reactions to magnetic resonance contrast media – gadolinium chelates A Li, MBChB, FRCR et al

This article reviews the adverse reactions to MR contrast media and finds them just as safe as previous studies have documented

Neck pain: an unusual presentation of a common disease
by A C Pankhania, MBChB, MRCS et al Check out this article in the British journal of radiology, using the high wire press journal link on http://www.iria.in/ to get complete access.
The complete article is at http://bjr.birjournals.org/cgi/content/full/79/942/537 I hope you won't miss the suspense if I tell you that this article describes the findings in Spinal Gout.

Indian Radiologist

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We have created our web-site www.iria.in for the benefit of the Indian radiologist practicing or studying Radiology in India.
The site has been designed as a complete information portal with the History and Constitution of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association and links to various Radiology and Imaging sites for Radiology Education.
All the latest Radiology news and controversies are published in an online Newsmagazine. An interactive radiology quiz and CME are also published on this site.
There are links to the Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging web-site and the web-site of Indian College of Radiology and Imaging is incorporated in the IRIA web-site.

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