Inclusion of scientific articles proves popular

My first contact with RAD Magazine was some 50 years ago when I met with former radiographer Dave Roberts, co-founder of the magazine, for lunch in San Lorenzo restaurant opposite The Royal Marsden Hospital in Fulham Road, where Princess Diana used to dine. Sadly, she was not present at the time we met. We discussed enhancing RAD Magazine by including articles on medical topics. They were a great success and soon there was a reference put at the head of the article similar to the scientific journals. It was amusing but flattering to RAD Magazine to see that these references were included in the CVs of medics when I was interviewing candidates for consultant positions.

Over the years, the articles have covered the development of imaging from x-ray screening in the dark to modern sophisticated photon-counting CT scanners and MRI. Ultrasound developed from the unwieldy UK Diasonograph to modern hand-held imaging probes, demonstrating movement of internal organs in real time. Nuclear medicine became established as a speciality, changing the emphasis from using radioisotopes as physiology tracers to imaging initially, with rectilinear scanners to modern high resolution CZT technology. The articles have been really useful to all involved in imaging in summarising the literature in an easy to read format.

Congratulations to RAD Magazine on its 50th birthday.

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