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MEDICAL PHYSICS IN THE BALTIC STATES 7 (2009)
Proceedings of International Conference “Medical Physics 2009”
8 - 10 October 2009, Kaunas, Lithuania
e-ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDICAL PHYSICS
WITH MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARY OF TERMS – EMITEL
Slavik TABAKOV, Peter SMITH, Franco MILANO, Sven-Erik STRAND, Inger-Lena LAMM, Cornelius LEWIS,
Magdalena STOEVA, Diana ADLIENE
EMITEL Consortium (www.emitel2.eu)
Abstract: The international project EMITEL has developed an e-Encyclopaedia for Medical Physics with Multilingual
Dictionary. The project attracted 250+ specialists from 35 countries. This web tool will be free to use over the Internet
for all colleagues. The paper describes the main elements of this first Medical Physics e-Encyclopaedia (web address:
www.emitel2.eu). The use of EMITEL is also explained in the paper.
Keywords: Education and Training, e-Learning
1. Introduction
The last 20 years introduced revolutionary methods as
Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance,
Molecular Imaging, etc. All these enter quickly in
healthcare and often limited information is available
about these new methods and respective technology.
Our two previous projects EMERALD and EMIT
developed training materials (e-books and Image
Databases) to address the initial training of young
medical physicists. These included specific training
tasks covering the physics fields of: X-ray Diagnostic
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine; Radiotherapy,
Ultrasound Imaging, MR Imaging. These materials are
now used in more than 70 countries around the world.
EMIT project received the inaugural EU Award for
education – the Leonardo da Vinci Award [1].
Both EMERALD and EMIT held Conferences, which
revealed the need of a free professional reference
source, linked to a multilingual dictionary of terms. This
web tool was expected to quickly provide information
for new, existing and old methods and equipment in
Medical Physics. The tool was specially made to
support the education, training and CPD process in the
profession. This way the project for an e-Encyclopaedia
of Medical Physics (EMITEL) was developed. The
project also included a Multilingual Dictionary of
Terms and was opened free during September 2009.
2. EMITEL project
This project was developed during the period 2001-
2005 and was further prepared for submission to EU. At
this stage the project partnership included the core of
the previous project partners - King’s College London
(Contractor) and King’s College Hospital, University of
Lund and Lund University Hospital, University of
Florence, AM Studio Plovdiv and the International
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Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP). This was the
first EU project of IOMP as an Institution and paved its
way for further international projects and funding.
The objective of the new pilot project EMITEL
(European Medical Imaging Technology e-
Encyclopaedia for Lifelong Learning) was to develop an
original e-learning tool, which will be used for lifelong
learning of a wide spectrum of specialists in Medical
Physics. Additionally to the e-Encyclopaedia is a
Multilingual Digital Dictionary of Terms, which cross
translates the terms in any of its languages.
Medical Imaging was specially underlined in the name
of the project, as this technology expands rapidly.
However Radiotherapy and Radiation Protection were
also included, together with a number of General terms
associated with Medical Physics.
EMITEL project was funded by the EU programme
Leonardo da Vinci, as well as by the project partners.
The EMITEL Consortium attracted additional
specialists from 35 countries, forming an International
Network. All members agreed to continue its activities
after the end of the project, assuring a constant support
and update of the project results.
3. EMITEL Dictionary
EMITEL Dictionary used as a base the previous EMIT
Dictionary (www.emitdictionary.co.uk). The list of
Medical Physics terms in this early Dictionary was
further refined and expanded. Currently some 3200
terms are included. These terms were translated into 25
languages by colleagues listed at the end of this paper.
Thus the original 7 languages English, Swedish, Italian,
French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, were
supplemented by new 18 languages: Bulgarian, Czech,