news & views MAY 2013

REPORT
Delegates along with the Dean of PGIMER Chandigarh.
Delegates being demonstrated
the mammography unit .
Hands on mammography & DEXA positioning
Chandigarh, India, August 25-28, 2012
Report by Dr SC Bansal
Indian Association of Radiological technologists in collaboration
with RAD-AID International a non-profit public service
organisation from USA organised a four day hands-on “Workshop
on Mammography & DEXA positioning” in the Department of
Radiodiagnosis & Imaging, PGIMER, Chandigarh with Prof. N
Khandelwal as chairperson and Dr S C Bansal as the organising
secretary.
During these four days, 33 Radiographers/Radiological
Technologists from the neighboring states of Punjab, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Union Territory of Chandigarh apart
from PGIMER, Chandigarh attended this workshop. This workshop
was aimed to train the radiological technologists working in the
field of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging with the latest advances in
mammography and DEXA scanning including advanced techniques
of mammography and DEXA positioning.
They were given hands-on training for the safe operation of the
equipments to produce high quality images with minimum radiation
dose to the patients and staff for yielding accurate diagnosis.
This will help in detecting early cancer of the breast and as well
as osteoporosis in the bones of the patients undergoing these
examinations.
This workshop was held for the first time in the country to take
Delegates along with the RAD-AID faculty.
Delegates and faculty on the concluding day of the workshop.
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