Kiyonari Inamura C. Carl Jaffe Heinz U. Lemke Knihy

Proceedings of the June 1999 symposium that addressed the dramatic changes resulting from information and communication technologies and the resulting need for interdisciplinary and international cooperation in the handling of existing and future informatic tools in healthcare. The 296 contributions discuss developments in imaging procedures with direct digital radiography, virtual endoscopy, spiral CT, and interventional MRI. They also cover electronic healthcare records, workflow management systems, computer-based training, real-time radiology, and minimally invasive and image-guided surgery. Contains several b&w and color images. There is an author index, but no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

CAR is a symposium and exhibition covering the impact of computer and communication systems applied to radiology and other medical disciplines, which use digital imaging for diagnosis and therapy planning. CAR '93 also provides tutorials, but more emphasis is given to a broad variety of specific problems related to medical/technical issues in digital imaging. This is achieved through in-depth presentations of results of current medical imaging projects on a worldwide basis.