Three decades have passed since my first personal experiences, influences and contacts with computer ap plications in the field of medicine. These experiences were influenced by diverse presentations, publications and seminars concerning various applications of information technology as early as in 1970 (Univac Inter national Executive Centre, Rome). The first clinical proposals and discussions during the first "World Congress of Intensive Care Medicine" (London 197 4) strongly impressed me, since they demonstrated that the future of medicine would be changed rapidly by the use of computer technology. In 1975, when I started my radiology residency, my clinical and academic interests were focused on two major topics: (i) interventional radiology and the clinical responsibility of the radiologist for the patient and (ii) the improvement of radiological services for both the clinician and the patient through the use of digital technology. These two topics, firstly interventional radiology and, secondly, computer technology along with all digital techniques developed in respect to examinations and modalities have been the basis for my "per sonal evolution" of medicine, especially of digital radiology.
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"... Each of the 34 chapters is well written and coupled with excellent illustrations. Each chapter provides selected references and available Web sites ... The text is clear and presented without extensive mathematics ... I would recommend the book to anyone interested in digital radioloy and PACS as developed in Germany and Austria ..."
American Journal of Roentgenology 177/Nov. 2001
"... At the minimum, it should be on the shelf of every chief or service in radiology and it is reasonable to believe that it should be readily available in each department's library ..." American Journal of Neuroradiology 9/2001
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978-3-7091-3707-9 (9783709137079)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-7091-3707-9
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Basics of digital radiology.- Basics of computer technology and digital imaging.- Internet in medicine: source of a new reality?.- PACS 2000+ from networks to workflow and beyond.- Planning digital radiology: practical approaches.- Request for proposal for PACS and evaluation of tenders.- Radiology information systems in the digital hospital.- Radiology information system and picture archiving and communication system: interfacing and integration.- Horizontal PACS deployment in an integrated system.- Going filmless in a new hospital setting.- Large PACS projects.- A view to the past of the future - A decade of digital (r)evolution at the Danube hospital.- Applications using new digital technologies.- Reporting from monitors.- Synergy effects of a high-end 3D-workstation within a digital environment.- Medical reporting using speech recognition.- Physiological tests and functional diagnosis with digital methods.- Image fusion.- Expanding the digital revolution to anthropology.- PMDA - Personal Medical Digital Assistants Mobile computing in medical environments.- Information Technology (IT) in radiology tele-consultation.- Teleconsultation in medicine and radiology - theory and legal aspects.- Digital fluororadiography.- Practical aspects of computed radiography (CR).- Digital radiology in chest imaging.- Digital pediatric radiology.- The therapeutic value of mapping and 3D modeling of cartilage lesions in the knee.- Experiences and future aspects of neuronavigation.- F-18-FDG PET in Oncology.- Digital revolution in cardiac imaging.- From single slices to volume imaging: (r)evolution in computed tomography.- New advances for imaging of laryngotracheal stenosis by post processing of spiral-CT data.- Current development and economic issues.- Flat panel detectors - closing the (digital) gap in chest and skeletal radiology.- Scanhead technology.- Economic aspects of digital radiology.- Investing in PACS using real option theory.- Epilogue.- Virtual reality - symbiosis of science and art.
