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About the Website

The website is a cooperation between ALOKA Holding Europe AG in Switzerland and the Radiology Department of the Gelderse Vallei Hospital in Ede in the Netherlands.

It contains the teaching files from the ultrasound department of Gelderse Vallei Hospital. The cases were collected over a period of more than five years. When possible the cases were correlated with the clinical information, endoscopy results, surgical findings and pathological reports.

The site is intended for those who want an overview of the various ultrasonographic presentations of common pathology as seen in a general Dutch hospital.

The site is not intended to replace the many good reference books that exist on ultrasound.

An internet website has the advantage over a book that a lot of images and cineloops can be stored, while the space for illustrations in books is limited. After a few years the illustrations in books tend to become outdated, while the illustrations on a website can easily be renewed. Also not everyone involved in ultrasound has access to the latest books, while many of them have access to the internet.

About the Author

Taco Geertsma is working as a general radiologist in the Gelderse Vallei since January 1, 1983. He is the head of the ultrasound department.

Although he has always had a special interest in ultrasound, he has specialized in ultrasound in the Gelderse Vallei Hospital since 2000. The hospital has a special reputation in musculoskeletal ultrasound.

He is an internationally recognized speaker on ultrasound.

T.S.A. Geertsma MD

About the Hospital

The Gelderse Vallei Hospital is a large general hospital in the middle of the Netherlands. It is located in the city of Ede. In 2000 the hospital moved to a brand-new building.

Hospital Gelderse Vallei, Ede, The Netherlands


About the Radiology Department

The department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine is equipped with MSCT, MRI, US, mammography, angiography, conventional radiography and nuclear medicine.

The department as well as the hospital is fully equipped with a digital hospital network.

The department of Radiology of the Gelderse Vallei Hospital is one of the first TUV ISO 9001:2000 certified Radiology departments in the Netherlands.

The radiologists of the Gelderse Vallei hospital provide the diagnostic imaging services for the potential olympic athletes in association with the Dutch national sports confederation and the Dutch national olympic committee (NOC-NSF).

The Ultrasound Unit

The Ultrasound Team of Hospital Gelderse Vallei

The ultrasound unit uses ALOKA ultrasound equipment since 1984. Of the ultrasound systems in use 4 are Alpha10 Systems.

Most of the routine ultrasound examinations are performed by a dedicated group of ultrasound technicians who all have had special training in ultrasound and work under the supervision of a radiologist.

The radiologists have subspecialized in different radiological modalities, some of them in ultrasound.

Future

The ultrasound department of the Gelderse Vallei Hospital is using scanners of the latest state-of-the-art science and technology. New cases are added to the website on a regular basis and the author is at the same time also making a lot of efforts to continuously replace older images with new ones to keep the website up-to-date with images of today's technology.

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