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Danger! High energy X-rays! From Sellotape?
Blog It turns out that ordinary sticky tape - Sellotape in the UK, Scotch tape in the US, Durex in Australia (well, once upon a time) - emits high energy X-rays when you pull some off the roll. But X-rays?
[October 22, 2008, 23:10]
NHS to email x-rays to doctors
News In addition to patients not having to wait whilst their x-rays are processed and delivered by hand from one department to another, clinicians will no longer have to hold x-rays up to a light box in A&E to make a diagnosis.
[May 11, 2004, 11:00]
Danger! High energy X-rays! From Sellotape?
Blog Comment Just spotted this one Rupert It sounds like a phenomenon I spotted years ago. When you split open the seal of a self-sealing envelope. You briefly get a blue glow where the sheets split, visible in the semi-dark.
[January 7, 2009, 12:29]
Spintronics - new physics just keeps pouring out
Blog Round these parts, innovation means high-brilliance circularly polarized x-rays probing the magnetic state of a material under pressures of many hundreds of thousands of atmospheres inside a diamond anvil cell.
[June 7, 2009, 17:24]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
Talkback The patient can't have that electronic x-ray sent because at the moment it doesn't exist, and getting physical x-rays between hospitals just doesn't seem to be done. There'd be no need to repeat x-rays (though thats only happened once).
[November 9, 2004, 10:57]
Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership Improves Patient Care and Reduces Costs With HP Medical Archiving Solution
White Papers The driving force for establishing it was to accelerate the access of all participating hospitals to medical imaging services, and give medical professionals immediate access to medical records such as X-rays and MRIs.
[August 25, 2006, 0:00]
Government 'must make leap to broadband'
News It lets you take x-rays to doctors, rather than taking doctors to x-rays as we do today. The UK government must help develop Broadband Britain by developing online versions of its existing services that will make use of high-speed Internet access...
[March 1, 2002, 6:31]
Thursday
Blog This uses much less nasty stuff, which is persuaded to disgorge much more radiation than it should by zapping it with x-rays much like a glow-in-the-dark star gets all excited if you leave it in the sun for a bit.
[February 28, 2003, 16:50]
X-ray named top scientific invention
Blog The X-ray was discovered in November 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen when he was studying cathode rays emerging from a William Crookes cathode ray tube. The X-ray machine has been voted the most important scientific invention in a poll by...
[November 4, 2009, 16:23]
aMac Digital Radiography
Downloads An application for acquiring, viewing and storing x-rays for dentistry. Product features include quick capture, dual periapical views, vertical and horizontal bitewing views, fullmouth series view, image archiving and restoration, exportation of...
[October 11, 2004, 8:00]
NHS completes rollout of digital X-ray tech
News The Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (Pacs) technology replaces the traditional method of using film and paper by allowing X-rays and scans to be stored digitally and accessed by health professionals on computers and laptops.
[December 28, 2007, 8:18]
Big Blue builds a corporate copy lock
News But IBM says there are also broader corporate uses for the software, such as allowing doctors to send digital versions of X-rays to remote hospitals, or insurance companies to transmit claims records and customer information over a network.
[April 8, 2002, 9:06]
NHS picks BT for massive broadband network
Talkback Say what you like but I saw a Lonhorn presentation swapping X-Rays securely and lots of other 'medical' activites, securely. You need broadband for that and BT is the biggest, I think this'll be great for the NHS.
[February 19, 2004, 13:51]
Large Urban Hospital Delivers Better Patient Care, Gains More Than $5.6 Million in Benefits With Compuware Vantage
White Papers A large urban hospital needed to reduce the time it takes for medical professionals to view digitally stored medical records such as X-rays and MRIs. It also needed to increase application and network availability, deliver improved patient care and...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Nortel Network Case Study: The Medical City, Manila
White Papers They wanted to implement a reliable and secure networking solution with optimum connectivity capable of carrying information services such as patient records and X-rays as well as sensitive laboratory results and other medical services information.
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
Surgical Recall
Downloads This new Fourth Edition is completely updated and includes new content, plus new mnemonics, new classic x-rays, and 60 new drawings. This reference for third and fourth year medical students on surgical clerkships enables quick study and easy...
[December 3, 2008, 4:56]
Surgical Recall, 4th Ed.
Downloads This new Fourth Edition is completely updated and includes three new chapters, plus new mnemonics, new classic x-rays, and 60 new drawings.Whats new in this edition:Over 100 brand new illustrations and classic radiographsMore useful mnemonics and...
[January 21, 2004, 7:00]
Surgical Recall, 4th Ed.
Downloads This new Fourth Edition is completely updated and includes three new chapters, plus new mnemonics, new classic x-rays, and 60 new drawings.Whats new in this edition:Over 100 brand new illustrations and classic radiographsMore useful mnemonics and...
[January 21, 2004, 7:00]
MedMemory Personal Patient Health Record
Downloads As an electronic health record (EHR), MedMemory can hold imaging results like X-rays, CT scans, MRs, PETs and ultrasounds; additional tests and readings - like EKGs and pulmonary functioning tests - can be stored on MedMemory as well.MedMemory...
[July 6, 2009, 7:47]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
Talkback I think they should fire on the spot any manager that approved x-ray equipment that can only use certain Microsoft products in only electronic ways to make x-rays available. As for your x-ray example.
[November 4, 2004, 21:56]
