UW Radiology


December 29, 2014

The history of the Agatston score

Many of you have had the chance to swing by the library and read the monthly Featured History exhibits, which have covered fluoroscopy, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow, and MRIs. I’m still working on the next installment of Featured Histories, but if you’re looking for a history fix in the meantime, you might enjoy a recent article from the Journal of…


December 17, 2014

BMJ Christmas issue 2014

Have you ever wondered how many Nintendo-related incidents occur every year? What about how deaths in children’s films compare to deaths in movies with an older audience? The BMJ Christmas Issue is here to give tongue-in-cheek answers to those questions — and many more. Medical Library News gives an overview below, and you can browse…


December 10, 2014

12 free radiology apps

With handheld devices flourishing on the market, many doctors have found it helpful to carry an iPad or smartphone with them at all times. Ideally, you’ve found a better way to carry your device than a friend of mine, who carried his iPad in his lab coat pocket throughout his clerkships and ended up with…


December 5, 2014

Featured History: Magnetic resonance imaging

When Nikola Tesla first described the rotating magnetic field in 1882, he could hardly have imagined what it would lead to. Just 130 years later, with the assistance of a paper napkin and a thin grad student, that discovery has become the basis for the highly popular tool of magnetic resonance imaging. Like any major…