Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
It's everybody's nightmare: The hospital PACS crashes in the middle of a hectic day. There's no immediate prospect of the system firing up again, and access to all patient images gets blocked.
But the lights-out scenario can be avoided, or at least its impact minimized, according to Joachim Zaers, a Munich-based engineer. He has some useful checklists on how best to handle PACS downtime. To read more, go to our PACS Digital Community, or click here.
The vigorous debate over teleradiology shows no sign of going away. Ensuring quality remains the key challenge, and it's fascinating to get the perspective of an executive from a teleradiology company with offices in Spain, the U.K., and Australia. Click here to find out more.
Following Brazil's sensational departure from the World Cup, the controversy continues over the authenticity of the CT scan of its injured star player, Neymar Junior. Get the story here.
Another CT scan sure to attract massive attention is that of a 50-year-old heavy metal fan who was admitted to hospital after headbanging at a Motörhead gig in Germany. The patient complained of a constant worsening headache for two weeks. Find out the diagnosis here.
Meanwhile, Austrian researchers have added PET/CT to a package of three MRI sequences to create fused PET/MR images. They found that the protocol aided in the differentiation of suspicious breast lesions, according to a new study published online in Clinical Cancer Research. Go to our Women's Imaging Digital Community, or click here.
Our series on Turkey continues with a report about a network of 100 mobile mammography units that's due to be deployed as part of a 183 million euro teleradiology screening project. We've interviewed Dr. Utku Şenol, president of the Turkish Medical Informatics Association. Go to the Middle East Section of our sister site AuntMinnie.com, or click here.
