42         SA JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY • September 2007

So, you’ll notice an exciting new feature called Today’s 2 signs (edited 
and managed by Ami Bajwa, a new addition to the editorial team). This 
is supposed to teach us some solid signs ‘by great example’ or some 
unusual and new signs… What a great idea!

You will also note the emphasis of the review articles and Specialty 
Corner on PACS. These are simple, beginners’ guides to PACS written 
by Otto Schulze, who while still a registrar in radiology, leads the whole 
Western Cape PACS vision. It’s guys like Otto who have both IT and 
radiology insight, who help us understand and make better decisions. 
I hope that after completion of his thesis, also on radiology system and 
information that Otto will lead the way for a new area of radiology 
specialisation in South Africa (IT in radiology is an existing following 
option in the USA).

It is also time we brought to attention our imaging libraries and 
to liven the discussion around these. Should the historical hard-copy 
libraries be preserved? Should these be digitised? Should we incorporate 
the library cases by demarcating them on our PACS? Are we duplicat-
ing work already done, for example by AMIRSYS (Anne Osborne & Ric 
Harnsberger), a new digital library source available on line. In a future 
issue, I will give you a clearer idea on ‘STAT Dx’ as we will get free access 
to this (expensive, but super) resource which was demonstrated to me  
in Utah.

Lastly, just a word on the scholarship that I have completed. Let me 
encourage you to apply. The award was $10 000 for 2 - 3 months at one 
of any of the recommended sites including Ivy League universities, such 
as Columbia in New York and Harvard in Boston.

I did predominantly ‘Diffusion Tenor Imaging (DIT)’, started a 
number of collaborative research projects and got myself appointed as a 
Research Scientist at Columbia for the next year. I hope this is the start of 
a long fruitful association. I will give a full report in the next issue. I hope 
you enjoy this issue because it’s full of wonderful bits of information!

Mixed bag

Savvas Andronikou
Chief Editor

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