Digital (R)Evolution in Radiology

Outlook.- Outlook.- Basics of digital radiology.- "Are the new technologies robbing us of our human dignity?" About the new "sciences" within medicine.- Basics of computer technology and digital imaging.- The digital radiology in the digital hospital of the future.- Planning digital radiology: practical approaches.- 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.- Hospital PACS as an agent of continuous change.- Large PACS projects.- A view to the past of the future - Digital (r)evolution at the Danube hospital.- Digital history of radiology.- Medical image archives.- Storage and networks.- Applications using new digital technologies.- Reporting from monitors.- Medical reporting using speech recognition - The KFJ solution (Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Vienna, Austria).- Physiological tests and functional diagnosis with digital methods.- eHealth: The economic perspective.- Image fusion.- Expanding the digital revolution to physical anthropology.- Metropolitan healthcare networking.- Teleconsultation in medicine and radiology - theory and legal aspects.- Application service providing (ASP) - a challenge for the future of medicine. An example: marc - major centre for digital image exchange.- Information Technology (IT) in radiology tele-consultation.- Multimodality registration in daily clinical practice.- Ten years experience with computer-assisted interventions from head to toe.- 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.- Perfusion and spectroscopy in cerebral magneticresonance tomography (MRT).- Digital mammography.- New advances for imaging laryngo / trachealstenosis by post processing of spiral-CT data.- Current development and economic issues.- Flat panel detectors - closing the (digital) gap in chest and skeletal radiology.- Digital radiology and its cost-effectiveness? - Experiences and recommendations from Vienna's Donauspital (Danube hospital).- Investing in PACS using real option theory.- Process benchmarking in radiology.- Mobile IT adoption in the enterprise: 2004 update.- Epilogue.- Virtual reality - symbiosis of science and art.- Internet activism - Beyond Microsoft's walls.