Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 20, Issue 7, Supplement , Pages S275-S277 , July 2009

The IR Radlex Project: An Interventional Radiology Lexicon—A Collaborative Project of the Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Interventional Radiology

  • Sanjoy Kundu, MD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • The Vein Institute of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to S.K., c/o Society of Interventional Radiology, 3975 Fair Ridge Dr, Suite 400 N, Fairfax, VA 22033
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  • Maxim Itkin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • Debra A. Gervais, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Gastrointestinal/Genitouri-nary Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Venkataramu N. Krishnamurthy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • Michael J. Wallace, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
    • ,
  • John F. Cardella, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Gei-singer Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • Daniel L. Rubin, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Radiology and of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), National Center of Biomedical Ontology, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 The development of RadLex was funded in part by a contract from the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project of the National Cancer Institute and by a partnership between the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. D.A.G. was supported in part by Covidien (Hamilton, Bermuda). M.J.W. was supported in part by Siemens Medical Solutions (Erlangen, Germany). C.P.L. is a paid consultant for Elsevier (New York, New York), and serves in a paid position on the medical advisory board of GE Healthcare (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

 This article first appeared in J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:433–435.

PII: S1051-0443(09)00329-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.04.031

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 20, Issue 7, Supplement , Pages S275-S277 , July 2009

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