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The European Society of Radiology (ESR) is pleased to announce an official new record of 82,000 members worldwide. The milestone comes after the society ramped up its efforts to increase its membership application numbers this year through increased collaboration and outreach with national and allied science societies.

The record has occurred just as registration for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2019 opens, with many people looking to benefit from reduced fees to attend Europe’s largest annual radiology meeting. Every...

The ESR and EuroSafe Imaging are proud to announce the publication of the European Guidelines on Diagnostic Reference Levels for Paediatric Imaging in the European Commission’s Radiation Protection Series.

These guidelines have been eagerly awaited by radiologists, radiographers, medical physicists, as well as national radiation protection regulators. They are expected to play an important role in paediatric imaging practice across Europe.

The guidelines were developed by the European Commission-funded project PiDRL (European Diagnostic Reference Levels for Paediatric Imaging), which was...

Following a productive meeting in July between the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT), the two societies have stepped up efforts to support radiographers together through a variety of different initiatives.

The ESR is currently working with the ASRT to highlight the benefits that ESR membership, which is free for ASRT members, can bring to radiologic technologists in North America. As Professionals of Allied Sciences members, such benefits include a special reduced fee...

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) is happy to announce that the first stop on its Best of ECR tour will be the Brazilian Congress of Radiology (CBR), taking place in Fortaleza in October 2019. The city is located in the northeast of Brazil and served by an international airport. The project will see some of the best speakers from the European Congress of Radiology 2019 (ECR) travelling to Brazil to present their work to a new audience.

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A group of French researchers have finally completed a long-term study on the occurrence of Immediate Hypersensitivity (IH) in patients being injected with Contrast Media (CM). The multicentre study, which was recently published by The Lancet, was carried out in France and took place over the course of fourteen years, with five years having been dedicated entirely to data collection. Due to the rarity of severe reactions to Contrast Agents, 31 centres were involved in the study, enabling researchers...