Editor's perspectives – July 2015

2015 7 July − − Sir

Sunday 26 July 2015

Radiation-induced enteritis is an acute side effect patients may experience when receiving radiation therapy to the pelvis, due to radiation damage to the small bowel. This unwanted effect can be significantly reduced for some patients if their bladder is full when they have treatment, which pushes the small bowel superiorly out of the treatment area. However, bladder volume is hugely variable,...

Friday 24 July 2015

We live in a world of rapidly changing advances in technology, particularly artificial intelligence and connectivity. Rather than a general artificial intelligence the reality is that we are moving more towards a world populated with specialist artificial intelligence systems. Therefore we are likely to have specialist medical intelligences, specialist engineering intelligences, etc. The realit...

12 - 13 July 2015

S Baojun BIAN ........................................................................................................................... 2 Zengjing CHEN ........................................................................................................................ 2 Min DAI ...................................................................................................................

Saturday 25 July 2015

The radiographer I am today is not the same radiographer I was in 1982 – my role has changed. This change did not occur by chance; it may have started out as an organic process but ended up as something that was directed and intentional. This paper reflects on my experiences in driving and advocating cultural change in radiography in my hospital and beyond. My perspective extends back to 1979 w...