The Twenty-second Annual Congress

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The Twenty-second Annual CongressPublished Online:28 Jan 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-34-403-401SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstractThe Twenty-second Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology was held at the Central Hall and Church House, Westminster, London, S.W.1, from April 26 to 28, 1961. The decision to hold the Annual Congress in the spring was, as the President, Dr. James Bull, said in his introductory remarks, an innovation. He hoped that the experiment would result in a greater attendance of members. In actual fact the figure approached 600, as compared with 550 in 1957, which was the last Congress at which a Technical Exhibition was held. There was a record number of visitors from overseas, many from Western European countries as well as from the United States and Canada. The weather was fine and in marked contrast to the dark days of some previous winter Congresses. The general opinion of members was that the innovation was an improvement and, in fact, Council has decided to hold the next Congress at the end of April, 1962.The Opening Address was given by the Rt. Hon. Lord Adrian, O.M., M.D., F.R.S. He was introduced by the President who paid a graceful compliment to his many academic distinctions—“The Master of Trinity, as all Cambridge men know, and others should, is the wisest man in the Kingdom”. He insisted that Lord Adrian was essentially a clinician, and recalled that Lord Adrian had been a house physician at the President's own hospital, the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. Lord Adrian chose as his subject “Instruments in the Service of Medicine”. Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byOral Radiological Evaluation of the Biliary TractAustralasian Radiology, Vol. 20, No. 1RBE, OER and Dose-rate Effects with 14 MeV Neutrons Relative to 300 kVp X-rays in Barley Roots3 July 2009 | International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 5RadiosensitisersThe Lancet, Vol. 287, No. 7451Sensitization of Radio-resistant Bacteria to X-rays by lodoacetamideNature, Vol. 196, No. 4861DIVISION OF BIOPHYSICS: ON THE MODE OF ACTION OF SOME TREATMENTS THAT INFLUENCE THE RADIATION SENSITIVITY OF CELLS*30 April 2012 | Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 8 Series II Volume 34, Issue 403July 1961Pages: 401-470 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineJanuary 28,2014 Metrics Download PDF