The objective of the pilot project European Medical
Imaging Technology e-Encyclopaedia for Lifelong Learning
(EMITEL) is to develop an original e-learning tool,
which will be used for lifelong/continuing learning of a
wide range of specialists in Medical Physics and Medical
Imaging Technology. The tool will be linked to our
existing EMERALD and EMIT materials (developed by the
core of the present Consortium) and will additionally
include Radiation Protection, Hospital Safety and
Radiotherapy terms, thus forming a one-stop knowledge
database for those who want to acquire a specific
competence and for those who want to refresh their
knowledge and to learn about the new developments in the
profession. The tool will be linked to our multilingual
Digital Dictionary, which will help its use in many EU
and other countries. Currently the database of the
e-Dictionary includes 25 languages.
Medical Physics is a very dynamic profession – the last
20 years have changed dramatically most of its areas,
introducing new methods and equipment with speed, which
requires constant update of one’s knowledge. EMITEL will
be innovative e-Learning tool - a large searchable Web
database, including multilingual Digital Dictionary of
Terms with explanatory articles for each term. The total
number of terms in English is expected to be approx.
3200. The Dictionary cross-translates to/from any two
languages from its database. Each term will be covered
by an explanatory article in English (or hyperlinked to
an appropriate article). The length of the articles
would depend on the term. Most articles will also
include images, diagrams, and tables, as necessary. At a
later stage this material is planned to be additionally
printed as a paper book. The income from sales will be
used for the future updates of the material. During
May/June 2007 EMITEL was expanded to include 20
languages in the e-Dictionary and to develop a special
Content Management System (CMS) to allow future update
the content of the e-Encyclopaedia over Internet.
The Encyclopaedia will have a wide audience, primarily
amongst medical physicists at all levels, from trainees
to senior members of the profession, but it will also be
used by members of related professions, such as clinical
engineers, radiographers, doctors etc. Many users will
not have English as their first language and will access
the encyclopaedia through the multi-language dictionary
of terms.
A Consortium has been established between the following
institutions to run the project: King’s College London
(Contractor and Coordinator) and King’s College Hospital
(UK), University of Lund and Lund University Hospital
(Sweden), University of Florence (Italy), AM Studio Ltd
(Software company, Bulgaria) and the International
Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP).
The core of this partnership has worked previously in
two successful Leonardo training projects EMERALD and
EMIT – their materials are now used in 65 countries
(EMIT Consortium received the Leonardo da Vinci Award in
Maastricht 2004).
The EMITEL Consortium will continue its function after
the end of the project to assure constant update of the
e-Encyclopaedia tool. The
project additionally attracted new contributors - senior
professionals from all over the world. These formed an
International Network EMITEL (currently 250+ specialists
from 35 countries), which will continue to care for the
EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia and Dictionary
The project was financially supported by the Partners
above and the EU programme Leonardo da Vinci.
Additionally, a number of distinguished colleagues
generously agreed to support this important for our
profession project by contributing to the translation of
terms, development of articles, refereeing and
dissemination of EMITEL.
List of the authors/members of EMITEL Consortium:
King's College London
Dept. Medical Engineering and Physics, Denmark Hill, SE5
9RS, London, UK
Members: Dr Slavik Tabakov, Dr Andy Simmons, Dr Victoria
Aitken, Dr Stephen Keevil, Dr Charles Deehan:
slavik.tabakov@kcl.ac.uk
a.simmons@iop.kcl.ac.uk
victoria.aitken@kcl.ac.uk
stephen.keevil@kcl.ac.uk
charles.deehan@gstt.nhs.uk
International Organisation for Medical Physics
(IOMP)
Fairmount House, 230 Tadcaster Rd., York YO24 1ES
Members: Dr Peter Smith, Prof. Fridtjof Nuesslin:
Peter.Smith@mpa.n-i.nhs.uk
nuesslin@lrz.tu-muenchen.de
Universita degli studi di Firenze (University of
Florence)
Dip. di Sanità Pubblica, v.Morgagni, I-50134 , Firenze,
Italy
Members: Prof. Franco Milano:
franco.milano@unifi.it
Universitetssjukhuset I Lund (Lund University
Hospital)
Dept. Radiation Physics, Lasarettet, S-22185, Lund,
Sweden
Members: Dr Inger-Lena Lamm, Dr Thomas Jansson, Dr
Monica Almquist:
Inger-Lena.Lamm@skane.se
Tomas.Jansson@elmat.lth.se
Monica.Almqvist@elmat.lth.se
Lunds Universitet (University of Lund)
Dept. Radiation Physics, Hamtstalle, S-22185, Lund,
Sweden
Members: Prof. Sven-Erik Strand, Dr Bo-Anders Jonsson,
Dr Michael Ljungberg, Prof. Freddy Stahlberg, Dr Ronnie
Wirestam, Mr Emil Nordth, Mr Mikael Peterson:
sven-erik.strand@radfys.lu.se
Bo-Anders.Jonsson@radfys.lu.se
michael.ljungberg@radfys.lu.se
freddy.stahlberg@radfys.lu.se
Ronnie.Wirestam@radfys.lu.se
Emil.Nordh@skane.se
mikael.peterson@gmail.com
King's Healthcare NHS Trust
Dept. Medical Engineering and Physics, Denmark Hill, SE5
9RS, London, UK
Members: Dr Cornelius Lewis, Dr Colin Deane, Dr David
Goss, Mr Jim Thurston, Mrs Gillian Clarke, Ms Joan
Coward, Dr Lorna Sweetman:
cornelius.lewis@kcl.ac.uk
colin.deane@kcl.ac.uk
david.goss@kcl.ac.uk
Jim.Thurston@kch.nhs.uk
gillian.clarke@kingsch.nhs.uk
h_j_coward@yahoo.co.uk
Lorna.Sweetman@kch.nhs.uk
AM Studio Ltd.
57 Brezovska str. ap 4. 4003 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Members: Dr Magdalena Stoeva, Ing. Asen Cvetkov:
ms_stoeva@yahoo.com
amstudio@dig.bg
The authors above, forming the project Consortium,
develop EMITEL through eight Working Groups. All
Contributors to the project will additionally take part
in these Groups (see Contributors).
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