The Nuclear Medicine Supervisor wants to look at putting the procedure manual online in something more searchable than just a collection of Word documents. I’ve proposed a a few different possibilities, including wiki, CMS and blog format. Now I have to create some demos to show off and let them pick which one they want to go with.
After proposing to the other CSCLRC board members that we consider using a CMS for the website, I’ve been ‘volunteered’ to take over as the group’s webmaster. Funny how things like that happen. I suppose I should have expected it. Should be an interesting task to take on though.
New digital mammo hitting the road
MUSC has a brand spankin’ new Mobile Health Unit (operated by the Hollings Cancer Center) offering among other services, digital mammography with our 5th digital mammography unit. The MHU travels to different places around the area (mostly rural locations) offering various screening services to people that might otherwise have a hard time getting these done.
The MHU is going to be parked in the horseshoe on campus on April 18, so if you’re in the area stop by and check it out. I’m told the new van is pretty swanky and posh inside. It’s also going to be visiting the Family Circle Cup Tennis tourney for an open house on April 14 (tomorrow).
Another publication for my bibliography
Yay! The manuscript I submitted got accepted for publication!
Not sure when it will appear yet. It’s a quarterly publication so it could be a few months before I see it in print.
Meeting? What meeting?
Don’t you just love it when you run into colleagues in the hall and they tell you “Hey, we just got out of a meeting you probably should have been in”.
Usually it also means I’ll end up with more work dropped into my lap at some point, and much scrambling later to resolve issues that probably would have been easier to take care of if I actually was at that first meeting.
Does that ever happen to anyone else?
An odd x-ray wave form
The other day I was doing some routine testing on one of the pediatric portable x-ray units (a Siemens Mobilette Hybrid XP). When I looked at the kV and radiation output wave form, I saw this odd stepping behaviour (radiation output wave form is the green line).
Normally I expect to see a pretty flat curve, maybe a little bit of a decline depending on the type of generator. While I don’t know the particulars about the Mobilette’s generator, I’m thinking at least part of it is a capacitive discharge type generator, which would explain the drops. I’m going to have to investigate this a little more to see if it’s normal.