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Radiology as a multidisciplinary activity. The Presidential Address

Regional Medical Physics Department, Sheffield

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May I express my appreciation of the honour conferred on me in being elected to the office of President. I will give my best efforts to guiding the Institute's affairs during the coming year so that its position in the field of scientific medicine may be fully maintained. I am conscious that the President's chain has been worn by many who have been distinguished in different aspects of scientific work. am also conscious that under the guidance of my predecessors the Institute has played a unique role in the development of radiology. This has been possible because of the pattern of the Institute, established more than 70 years ago, when the Röntgen Society included non-medical members as well as medical ones, a pattern confirmed by the amalgamation in 1927 of the British Institute of Radiology and of the Röntgen Society. The organisation and outlook of the Institute is such that it can continue to make a substantial impact on the development of science and technology in medicine.

Many Presidential Addresses of the past have been concerned with a review of some aspects of the history of the Institute. I shall also inevitably refer to scientific activities very closely related to the past story of the Institute. I want, however, to try to look forward a little and make comments about some conditions on which the development of radiological science depends. The Institute can make substantial contribution in this field because it satisfies many of these conditions.