The 30,000 members of the American College of Radiology include radiologists, radiation oncologists, and medical physicists. For over three quarters of a century, the ACR has devoted its resources to making imaging safe, effective, and accessible to those who need it.
ARNA was founded in 1981 as the professional organization representing nurses who practice in diagnostic and therapeutic imaging environments. These nurse provide, promote, and maintain continuity of quality patient care in imaging environments such as general diagnostic, neuro/cardiovascular, interventional, ultrasonography, computerized tomography, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance, and radiation oncology.
The APDR is a unique alliance of those who share the essential task of resident training in radiology. The APDR sponsors meetings, forums, seminars, and other educational activities focused on the advancement of the art and science of radiology.
The AUR consists of over 3,000 staff radiologists, residents, and fellows. The purpose of the AUR is to encourage excellence in radiological laboratory and clinical investigation, teaching, and clinical practice; to stimulate an interest in academic radiology as a medical career; to advance radiology as a medical science; and to represent academic radiology at a national level.
The Computerized Medical Imaging Society serves as a source for the exchange of information concerning the medical use of computerized tomography in radiological diagnosis. In order to pursue this goal, activities of the Society include local and national meetings, approved courses, and study groups. All involved in medicine should be interested in the Society, but it is of particular interest to radiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, proctologists, nephrologists, oncologists, and specialists in internal medicine.
International Commission on Radiological Protection
Founded in 1928, the ICRP is an independent registered charity, established to advance for the public benefit the science of radiological protection, in particular by providing recommendations and guidance on all aspects of protection against ionising radiation.
International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
With the widespread availability of techniques to assess brain structure and function in mental disease in the middle of the 1980s, interest in neuroimaging in psychiatry underwent a rapid increase. Out of a desire to support and nurture this promising branch of biological psychiatry, the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP) was founded at the 1988 meeting of the CINP in Munich.
The Society and College of Radiographers represents more than 90 per cent of the working radiographers in the UK. It is responsible for their professional, educational, public, and workplace interests. As an organisation, the Society is probably unique, being both a professional body and a trades union affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. Founded in 1920, the Society is one of the oldest and most experienced radiography bodies in the world. The College is the charitable subsidiary of the Society and it exists to serve the public good. The College's objects are directed towards education, research, and other activities in support of the science and practice of radiography and its allied sciences. The Society commissions the College to deliver professional and educational services on behalf of members and the general public.
Society of Chairmen of Academic Radiology Departments
SCARD is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of radiology by the promotion of medical education, research, and patient care, the development of methods of undergraduate and graduate teaching in radiology, and the provision of a forum for discussion of problems and mutual interest among radiology department chairpersons.
The SRS is an international society providing academic and intellectual support for radiopharmaceutical science. At the heart of all nuclear imaging, radiopharmaceutical science is the design, synthesis, and evaluation of compounds containing suitable radionuclides that can be used in vivo to (trace) follow a particular physiological or biochemical phenomena.
World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
The WFUMB is a federation of affiliated organizations consisting of regional federations and national societies. The regional federations cover national societies of ultrasound in Europe (EFSUMB), in Asia (AFSUMB), in Latin America (FLAUS), and in Africa (MASU). The national societies are North America (AIUM) and Australasia (ASUM). WFUMB organizes World Congresses in Ultrasound every 3 years covering the whole field of diagnostic ultrasound. WFUMB and the World Health Organisation (WHO) collaborate on various education programs by organising and sponsoring courses and working for the creation of education centers and education and reference material.
