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Updated discussion forums - anonymous posting and more

Dear Radiolopolis members!


We just upgraded our discussion forum which enables many new features, such as anonymous postings, polls, video integration, instant preview panel and many more ...


 


Please find below a list of many Boardcodes available for you and how to use them:


 



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RSNA Radiolopolis event - it will rain prizes again! iPods, books, fun and more!

Win an iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, Radiology books and many other prizes at the Radiolopolis RSNA event


Win an iPod touch and many other prizes!
Join our RSNA Radiolopolis event! We will give away several latest generation iPod touch, iPod nano and iPod shuffle, great value Radiology books and many gift cards (Starbucks etc.Read More...


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Freelance writer for Radiology news articles wanted

We are currently seeking for freelance writers who are experienced in the medical, and particular Radiology field. If you are interested, please contact freelance@radiolopolis.com with the subject Freelance writing. Details will be then discussed on a personal basis.


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What should I do if my patient has a contrast reaction? Guidelines for contrast reactions

 


These are symptom-dependent guidelines for treatment of patients who suffer a reaction to intravenous contrast material.


 


Urticaria

In asymptomatic patients, no treatment is needed.


In patient with symptomatic urticaria that is mild or moderate, diphenhydramine 50 mg may be administered orally, intramuscularly, or intravenously.


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Interactive stack viewer for Radiology cases - tutorial







1-Toolbar:

The toolbar is available at the bottom of the viewer It offers many features:

1.    Full Mode: toggle screen normal/full mode

2.    High Quality Button: load HQ version of the current shown Image.

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The first and only truly interactive multiplanar stack viewer for Radiology cases - on Radiolopolis!

Interactive image stack viewer for Radiology cases

Finally it's launched: the long promised latest interactive image stack viewer for Radiology cases!


No installation needed - no Active X or other plugin needed!


Virtually every browser is in these days Flash enabled - that's all you need!


Access this program from every computer and from anywhere - independent from your location!


And the best is: It's free!!!

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RSNA event with many prizes (iPods), free drinks and meeting with the JRCR editors

RSNA Radiolopolis event 2010


MANY PRIZES (iPods, books, gift cards) at our RSNA event!



Finally we finished our Radiolopolis event survey and the majority of people decided to host the event on Wednesday, December 1st 2010 in the Hyatt Regency hotel downRead More...


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RSNA event invitation - awards, journal author / reviewer questions and more...

RSNA Radiolopolis event 2010


Dear Radiolopolis member,
The next RSNA meeting is approaching fast and we would like to cordially invite you to our RSNA Radiolopolis event. The Radiolopolis event will be an exciting "come together" with other Radiolopolis members and will also host an award ceremony for our Radiology OlympRead More...


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How-To tutorial: How to create interactive Radiology cases


This tutorial should guide you in a few steps how to create extraordinary interactive Radiology cases on Radiolopolis.
We try to make it as easy as possible so that even less computer experienced users may benefit from this unique feature.


The first part of this tutorial explains how to prepare the image stacks and the second part explains how to add them to your case portfolio.




Step 1: Preparing the image stacks:

Virtually every moderRead More...


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Tutorial: How to use the interactive mode for our Radiology cases


 


The interactive stack viewer has been adapted from our affiliated Journal of Radiology Case Reports and allows multiple functions that enhance the educational value of the provided cases.




 



The user may scroll through the entire image stack, window, level, zoom and pan the images as known from the workstation.

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World premiere: TRULY interactive Radiology cases and teaching files!

We present a new feature on Radiolopolis which is the start of a new generation of teaching files: interactive image stacks. This feature allows our Radiolopolis members to excel by providing "whole" cases to the audience.

This feature has been implemented in cooperation with our affiliated Journal of Radiology Case Reports - which is the first and only journal that allows truly interactive usage of published articles to its readers (ref. 1).

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Radiology Olympics opened! Honoring the movers, shakers and smartest in radiology education


Yes, you heard right: the first Radiology Olympics just opened!

Because of the plentitude of excellent cases we are receiving every day we had the idea to create an international educational contest a la "Olympic games". 


With the Radiology Olympics we intend to honor our "movers and shakers" in Radiology . Our first disciplines show our most diligent case Read More...


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AFIP closes! ACR Launches American Institute for Radiologic Pathology

New Radiologic Pathology Course Continues Resident Training After AFIP Closure  



The American College of Radiology (ACR) has launched the American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP), which will provide a four-week Radiologic-Pathology Correlation Course, given five times per year, beginning in January 2011. 


 


The new AIRP course fulfills all requirements for more than 310 residency programs previously satisfied by the Radiologic-PatRead More...


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Upcoming Radiology courses and meetings

 


 


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Radiology job market place opened - free job search from over 50,000 Radiology jobs

Radiolopolis offers one of the largest Radiology job market places worldwide - free job search of over 50,000 US and international Radiology jobs


Radiolopolis went another step towards becoming aRead More...


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New educational features on Radiolopolis - provided by the Journal of Radiology Case Reports

 


In collaboration with the Journal of Radiology Case Reports (JRCR), we provide from today on daily multiple choice questions based on the published articles in the JRCR. We incorporated these interactive questions into our daily activity stream where you can find them under "Educational Corner: Test yourself". (see screenshot).


One more reason to see Radiolopolis as your educational "home" page...
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MQSA Breast Imaging Experience Requirements

 



The RRC for Diagnostic Radiology requires three months of breast imaging. The latest RRC regulations state "There must be a minimum of 12 weeks of clinical rotations in breast imaging. Each resident should have documentation of the interpretation/multireading of at least 240 mammograms within a six-month period within the last two years of the residency program." 

The RRC regulations are posted on the ACGME website as "Effective September Read More...


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Radiolopolis officially declared as trustworthy health information website!

We can proudly announce that from Mai 2010 on Radiolopolis has been officially declared a site for trustworthy information that complies with the HON standard!


 


This website is certified by Health On the Net Foundation. Click to verify. Read More...


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New case gallery feature - Display Radiology cases by diagnosis

And another feature has been added to Radiolopolis: Display cases by diagnosis.


This new feature allows you to browse through our entire case gallery by alphabet.


1. Just go to the "Case gallery" and click on the link"Review all diagnoses" (red arrow).


2. You will then see letters from A to Z.


3. Click on any letter and every case starting with that letter will be shown and can be reviewed.


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ACR about Radiolopolis: "Online Trends You Need To Know About"!

An entire article about social networking in the medical profession has been published in the news of the American College of Radiology (ACR) - and Radiolopolis did not come too short!


You may read the complete article here - page 20, title "What Happens Online, Stays Online".


For a good reason we make the registration process somewhat harder than other sites - it's worth it to be known as one of the safest professional social networking sites on the plRead More...


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Latest radiology articles from over 140 radiology journals!

Brandnew Radiology Publications from over 140 (!) Radiology Journals
Powered by PubMed Reader - Free customized PubMed Search and Radiology Search - A peer-reviewed and customized search software for searching radiology

  • [Targeted therapies and radiation therapy in non-small cell lung cancer.]
    Cancer Radiother 2011 Aug 30
  • Guidelines differentiate Alzheimer dementia and disease.
    J Nucl Med 2011 Sep
  • Oscillator-based assistance of cyclical movements: model-based and model-free approaches.
    Med Biol Eng Comput 2011 Sep 1
  • [Radiation-related heart toxicity.]
    Cancer Radiother 2011 Aug 30
  • Hierarchical Parameter Identification in Models of Respiratory Mechanics.
    IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2011 Aug 30
  • (18)F-FDG-PET imaging in radiotherapy tumor volume delineation in treatment of head and neck cancer.
    Radiother Oncol 2011 Aug 30
  • The Yield of 18FDG-PET/CT in Patients with Clinical Stage IIA, IIB, or IIIA Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study.
    J Nucl Med 2011 Aug 30
  • External beam radiotherapy combined with intraluminal brachytherapy in esophageal carcinoma.
    Radiother Oncol 2011 Aug 30
  • Altered FDG uptake patterns in pediatric lymphoblastic lymphoma patients receiving induction chemotherapy that includes very high dose corticosteroids.
    Pediatr Radiol 2011 Sep 1
  • [Induction chemotherapy for head and neck epidermoid carcinomas.]
    Cancer Radiother 2011 Aug 30
  • Expression of Wnt-1, TGF-β and related cell-cell adhesion components following radiotherapy in salivary glands of patients with manifested radiogenic xerostomia.
    Radiother Oncol 2011 Aug 30
  • [Interest of FDG-PET for lung cancer radiotherapy.]
    Cancer Radiother 2011 Aug 29
  • Neoadjuvant capecitabine, radiotherapy, and bevacizumab (CRAB) in locally advanced rectal cancer: results of an open-label phase II study.
    Radiat Oncol 2011 Aug 31
  • Quality Improvement Guidelines for Percutaneous Catheter-Directed Intra-Arterial Thrombolysis and Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Lower-Limb Ischemia.
    Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2011 Sep 1
  • Local-Regional Recurrence With and Without Radiation Therapy after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Mastectomy for Clinically Staged T3n0 Breast Cancer.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2011 Aug 30
  • Brain and Whole-Body Imaging in Rhesus Monkeys of 11C-NOP-1A, a Promising PET Radioligand for Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ Peptide Receptors.
    J Nucl Med 2011 Aug 30
  • Impact of Brain Tumor Location on Morbidity and Mortality: A Retrospective Functional MR Imaging Study.
    AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2011 Sep 1
  • Pipeline embolization device (PED) for neurovascular reconstruction: initial experience in the treatment of 101 intracranial aneurysms and dissections.
    Neuroradiology 2011 Sep 1
  • Reirradiation of brain metastases with radiosurgery.
    Radiother Oncol 2011 Aug 29
  • Updates from the ABNM.
    J Nucl Med 2011 Sep
  • Automated striatal uptake analysis of (18)F-FDOPA PET images applied to Parkinson's disease patients.
    Ann Nucl Med 2011 Sep 2
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever: 'starry sky' appearance with diffusion-weighted imaging in a child.
    Pediatr Radiol 2011 Sep 1
  • Obesity increases the prevalence and severity of focal knee abnormalities diagnosed using 3T MRI in middle-aged subjects-data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative.
    Skeletal Radiol 2011 Sep 2
  • Prenatal sonographic features of dyssegmental dysplasia Rolland-Desbuquois type.
    J Clin Ultrasound 2011 Aug 31
  • Whole-Brain Perfusion CT Patterns of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations: A Pilot Study in 18 Patients.
    AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2011 Sep 1
  • Bilateral assessment of functional tasks for robot-assisted therapy applications.
    Med Biol Eng Comput 2011 Sep 1
  • [Practical implementation of a quality management system in a radiological department.]
    Radiologe 2011 Sep 1
  • The cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) approach to assessing myocardial viability.
    J Nucl Cardiol 2011 Sep 1
  • Repeated cycles of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) - Results and side-effects of the radioisotope (90)Y-DOTA TATE, (177)Lu-DOTA TATE or (90)Y/(177)Lu-DOTA TATE therapy in patients with disseminated NET.
    Radiother Oncol 2011 Aug 30
  • Intrafractional Gastric Motion and Interfractional Stomach Deformity Using CT Images.
    J Radiat Res (Tokyo) 2011 Sep 1

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