Links to external websites
In the media
These are some publications / references in the media: Vindingrijk: magazine van de NOVU, page 14 (Dutch) NewScientist – Model patients control X-ray machines NRC – Sven Ploem uitvinder Publications Authored By Sven Ploem
Red Rum
Valedictory Speech (Dutch)
Rede uitgesproken door Sven Ploem, Radioloog, ter gelegenheid van de afscheids-receptie, hem aangeboden door de Afdeling Radiologie, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen Dames en Heren, Het leven van iedere professional speelt zich af tussen twee afscheiden. Het eerste afscheid aan het slot van de opleiding tot professional. Het tweede aan het Read more…
Master-Slave
The Ring Control
Joysticks used to control the motion of CardioAngioApparatus (CAA) is deep 20th century. CAA is used for diagnostic as well as therapeutic procedures (for instance Dotter procedures). The desired multi-degrees-of-freedom still is attempted at by joysticks. But this no longer represents the level of cybernetics possible today. The natural motion Read more…
Prototypes
The Deutsches Röntgen Museum
If you innovate you have to make prototypes. To prove that, your idea can be realized and to invoke Serendipity. Prototypes must be shown to have effect. And that poses a problem: space at congresses that matter is expensive. It was then that I remembered the prominent position granted to Read more…
1930 Ziedses des Plantes
Tomography
Tomography had a troubled start, now it is the Fundament of all Imaging. It is 1930, and Ziedses des Plantes presents Mechanical Tomography (MT). He presents it in the correct way: in lectures and in writing. But no one listens. Not his colleagues, not his hospital. Not any society, be Read more…
Doppler Technique
Liver Transplants: 24/7 Guardian Angel
Liver transplantation started in the United States of America. It then was taken up by their friends in England. And then, the Netherlands could not look away: the University Medical Center in Groningen, a city in the north of the country, started to transplant (parts of) livers. So worldwide, in Read more…