"Dr Dean's solution of 'banning' NHS consultants from working for other employers, which is how it would have to work in radiology, would leave the NHS with a major shortfall in radiology service provision until the current workforce shortage is addressed".
For Thomas Sos, the painter's grandson and a professor of radiology in the US, the resurgence in interest in Berény is exciting.
Already, the database contains 3m patient records, 35m radiology images, 1.5 gigabytes of diagnoses, 20m order-entries by physicians, and so forth.
Phase-contrast radiology, as Dr Margaritondo's technique is known, can "see" individual cells, cell walls and even structures inside cells.
Dr Tromba proposes to use phase-contrast radiology as a tool for breast-cancer screening.
With standard radiology, that means using a relatively high dose of X-rays, significantly increasing the risk that the screening itself will cause cancer in a previously healthy patient.
His are generated by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), in Grenoble, France.A coherent argumentThe way X-rays are used in hospital radiology departments, to show differences in density as between bones and surrounding tissue would not work on the scrolls.
The advantage of this jiggery-pokery is that the image produced is sharper and more detailed than anything that absorption-based radiology can deliver.
Other possibilities include the development of compact, portable X-ray lasers for medical imaging that needs to be done outside hospital radiology departments, and bright ultrafast X-ray lasers for use within those departments.The motion of electrons is the fundamental basis of chemistry.
The American embargo against the island does not help: equipment for radiology, mammograms and cancer therapy is hard to replace, says Julia Sweig of the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think-tank.Raúl Castro, the president, who this month visited China and Vietnam, is trying to revive the economy by cautiously transferring chunks of it into private hands.
As it is, they can get a certification in dental radiology as juniors, for example, and then qualify as dental assistants as seniors and this is just one of 15 technical subjects in which the schools offers qualifications.
