What is BrighamRAD?

Welcome to BrighamRAD, the home page for education and research of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. BWH is a nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Funding for this site is provided by the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. This site does not host or receive funding from advertisements.

This site contains education and research materials for radiologists, medical students, and patients. Nothing you read in these pages should be considered medical advice.

What's New

Additions and Changes to BrighamRAD this month.

We're Listening

We value your thoughts. Please consider filling out a Comment Form to tell us a bit about yourself and how you think we're doing.

To Visitors

Nothing on this World Wide Web site should be considered medical advice. Only your own doctor can help you make decisions about your medical care. It is not the policy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Radiology to provide consultation on the World Wide Web or via e-mail. If you have a specific medical question or are seeking medical care, please call the Brigham and Women's Hospital toll-free physician referral line at 1-800-294-9999.

Credits and Acknowledgments

BrighamRAD is a joint effort of the staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Radiology. The following individuals are primarily responsible for BrighamRAD's content:

• Steven E Seltzer, MD, Chairman, Department of Radiology
• Pauline Kelly, Director, Educational Design and Technology, Department of Radiology
• Gina Mammone Deibel, Electronic Media Manager, Educational Design and Technology, Department of Radiology

BrighamRAD alumni:

• Robert Baker, WWW Coordinator, 2002-2004.
• Candace Cutler, Director, Division of Education Production and Strategic Initiatives, 2000-2003.
• Gareth Ballester, WWW Coordinator, 2000-2002.
• Ruijuan Ruan, Web Coordinator, 1999-2000.
• Heather A Miniman, BrighamRAD Coordinator and Technical Editor, 1997-1998; BrighamRAD Editorial Associate, 1996-1997.
• Sally Edwards, ELS, Managing Editor, Department of Radiology, 1992-1999.

We would particularly like to acknowledge the contributions of the following:

• B Leonard Holman, MD -- for his forsight and enthusiasm in starting this project in 1993, and for his unflagging interest and support throughout his tenure at BWH. We hope this website continues to honor your memory.
• Puneet Chandak, MD -- for his beautiful and incredibly complete Useful Links pages, as well as the collaborative nuclear medicine atlases which he worked so tirelessly to create.
• J Anthony Parker, MD, PhD -- for his initial inspiration and for continually pushing the boundaries of the medium.
• John Ehresman and Stephan Deibel-- for creating and supporting our excellent forms interface to enter cases and search the case database and for their longsuffering support as server administrators.
• Lee Fox, MD and Ramin Khorasani, MD -- for their enthusiasm and stamina in launching the Radiology/Pathology collection back in 1994.
• Martha Everson and Charles David Healy for use of their photographs on the homepage and as icons.
• Mark (The Bear) Jacobson -- for his technical wizardry, and patient assistance.
• Russell A Blinder, MD, Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
• Robert A Greenes, MD, PhD, Director, Decision Systems Group
• The Decision Systems Group -- for their help and inspiration, and for sharing their space.
• Faculty and trainees who have contributed cases -- for their intellect, patience, insight, and all-around wonderful effort.

Copyright Information

All materials are copyrighted by Brigham and Women's Hospital.

If you would like to point to any of these materials from your WWW page, please feel free. But please do LINK to the original documents, rather than copying and serving from your local site.

Exception: The Department of Radiology does permit mirroring of BrighamRAD. Requests regarding the development of mirror sites are reviewed and judged on a case-by-case basis.

Portions of this work may be individually downloaded, copied, and cited for the personal and educational purposes of individuals and organizations in their work, provided that proper attribution and context are given.

Commercial reproduction or multiple distribution of any kind is prohibited.

Mirror Sites

A mirror site is intended to be an exact "replica" of an existing web site. The main purpose for creating a mirror site is to improve access in remote locations. For example, it may be faster for a user in Spain to access a BrighamRAD mirror site hosted on a server in Europe than to access the "official" host server in Boston, Mass.

However, mirror sites are not necessarily authorized or sanctioned by the hosts of the original site. They often become outdated. Furthermore, files downloaded for mirroring can be altered by mirror hosts. If you suspect that a page is outdated or has been altered, please check the URL in the location bar of your browser. The official URL should be listed at the bottom of each page. Only pages served from the official site will have URLs that match. (NOTE: In the case of teaching files, the URL of the search page, http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/education/online/tcd/tcd.html, is given.) The Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital can only guarantee the timeliness and integrity of official pages.

If you would like to create a BrighamRAD mirror site, please contact the BrighamRAD Design Team. Please identify your organization, the purpose for creating a new mirror site, and the location of the proposed host server. You will be asked to sign an agreement stating your intention (1) to maintain an up-to-date mirror of the site and (2) to respect the integrity of the BrighamRAD home site.

Striving for Excellence

Reviews, awards, advancing standards, and more.

Inside BrighamRAD

In the July/August 1996 issue of the RSNA EJ (Electronic Journal), B Leonard Holman, Gina L Mammone, Robert A Greenes, and J Anthony Parker provide an overview of BrighamRAD goals and accomplishments in their article entitled BrighamRAD: An Approach to Education, Decision Support, Information Dissemination, and Collaboration via the World Wide Web.

This site is dedicated to B Leonard Holman, MD

In Memoriam:
Toward a Digital Eye: An Exhibit of Computer-Enhanced Photography

A special collection of the art of Dr B Leonard Holman.

Case development forms for the password-priviledged.