Overview
- Editors:
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Davide Caramella
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Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Department of Oncology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Paolo Pavone
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Department of Radiology, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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- Davide Caramella, Steffen Achenbach
Pages 1-4
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- Rinaldo Rustico, Valeria Panebianco, Andrea Laghi, Paolo Pavone
Pages 5-15
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- Andrea Giovagnoni, Gianluca Valeri
Pages 31-49
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- Davide Caramella, Steffen Achenbach
Pages 51-70
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- Andrea Giovagnoni, Gianluca Valeri
Pages 79-94
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- G. Sparacia, T. V. Bartolotta, G. Brancatelli, M. P. D’Alessandro, A. E. Cardinale
Pages 95-106
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- Gianvincenzo Sparacia, Massimo Tartamella, Massimo Midiri, Roberto Lagalla
Pages 107-129
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- Erwin Bellon, Michel Feron, Joost Wauters, Bart Van den Bosch, Werner Aerts, Kris Verstreken et al.
Pages 131-147
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- Valeria Panebianco, Andrea Grossi, Paolo Pavone
Pages 161-182
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- Gianvincenzo Sparacia, Marco Brancato, Marcello De Maria
Pages 189-195
About this book
Davide Caramella . Steffen Achenbach The world around us is changing at an unparalleled pace. It is difficult to un derstand and describe the meaning of this process as no other revolution has involved so many people in such a short time. In particular, the Internet is about to influence all aspects of our lives. In the late 1700s, the "industrial revolution" forced societies that pre viously lived on agricultural production to rethink the way they worked. The rapid speed of change also involved non-technical fields: new cities flour ished, political systems were changed, the importance of the family was chal lenged, wars of a new size shook the world and even landscapes were altered. After centuries of relatively stable economical and sociological conditions, people had to adjust to a new world in no more than a few decades. The "information revolution" is not willing to give us as much time. This is demonstrated by the short history of the World Wide Web (WWW) which started in 1990 and is growing so quickly that the users can only be esti mated approximately (the last estimate that could be found at http:// etrg. findsvp. com put the number of WWW users in excess of 50 Million in July 1997). Also in the field of radiology, a spectacular growth took place in the last few years: in a paper published in the American Journal of Roentgen ology (AJR), K. W.
Editors and Affiliations
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Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Department of Oncology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Davide Caramella
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Department of Radiology, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Paolo Pavone
