Card panic!

As has been announced last summer (see e.g. this blog entry) the hospital is upgrading its entrance systems. The change was originally scheduled to take place last autumn, but delays have postponed the new card reader installation at R43 until this spring.

Today, completely out of the blue without any advance notice, the new card readers were installed. This means that your cards do not open the R43 corridor or the SMILE door anymore. I have been expecting the arrival of instructions from the security department on how to deal with upgrading your cards, but have not received any. I am struggling to find out how to do it, but important people at the security department are ill and I have not been able to solve this yet.

How difficult it will be to upgrade your card depends on where you work and other things.

* If you are hired by Karolinska Hospital and have a Swedish personal number you probably already have a SIS-marked card. All you need to do then is to contact me and give me some details such as your personal number. I can then send an email and your card will probably work almost at once.

* If you are hired by the hospital but do not have a Swedish personal number you will have to get an OSIS card. I'm not sure how to order those yet.

* If you are not hired by the hospital but need access to PACS, TakeCare or other hospital computer systems you also need to have an OSIS card.

* I think this goes for most of you: if you are not hired by Karolinska Hospital and do not need to have access to PACS etc, but just want to be able to open the doors, you will need to have a K-badge. I also do not know how to order K-badges, but I'm sure that you will need to have your photo taken by the hospital photographer in the process.

I will hopefully find out how these things work within a few days. Meanwhile, I want to start collecting information from those of you who wish to renew your access to the SMILE doors.

All those who want to be able to open both SMILE doors, please contact me ASAP. I will then ask you for the details I think are needed from you in order to get you renewed access.

To try and minimize the bother for the physicists with offices close to the entrance door, please call me on 08-585 848 07 when you are standing outside the R43 corridor door and I will come and open it for you.

PACS is here

The new PACS machine has arrived! I will be working on installing most of the programs we had on the old machine on it, but the licenses for Brain Voyager and IDL have expired. We will probably not get IDL again, and I'd like you to tell me if you are interested in having access to Brain Voyager as we may choose not to renew that license either.

As said earlier, the old machine has been removed. If you urgently find that you have forgotten to back-up important files on it, I can still get hold of the technician who took it away -- he hsa promised to keep it for a few weeks before getting rid of it.

Update on freja connections

The dicom server installed on freja is now the dcm4chee toolkit. We are looking at the possibility to set up a connection to the PACS as we had earlier. An advantage of the dcm4chee toolkit is that you can ask to have a username and then can log on a webservice to immediately see that your data has been safely stored on it.

Working from home

Please note that the manager will be working from home on Fridays for the foreseeable future.

New PACS machine

The new PACS machine will be arriving soon at the lab -- on Monday 21st of February already! The technician installing the new PACS machine will remove the old computer, so if you have any files that you need to save on the old machine, please do so as soon as possible.

Linux mini-course

Interest has been expressed in the Linux mini-course (read more about it here). Please contact the manager if you are interested in attending! Date and time are as yet not set.

Matlab learning activity

The Matlab event on Tuesday 22nd of February is now full, but if interest is large enough we will give it again. Read more about it at


http://www.smile.ki.se/education/courses/matlab_en.html

Welcome back Ariadna!

SMILE is again visited by Ariadna Besga, who is a postdoc at Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain. Ariadna will stay until April 15th, and will give a talk on Thursday 7th of April.

Our guest from the Netherlands, Inge van der Kroon, will also present a talk, on Thursday 14th of April.

KI course on molecular imaging

The KI course "Molecular imaging for medical diagnostics through MR physics" has just started, and has had many drop-outs of students, so the organizers have decided to open the course to all interested persons. Anyone may attend the lectures and KI PhD students may possibly even receive credits for the course.

You can read more about the course at this address: http://kiwas.ki.se/katalog/katalog/kurs/820

Please contact Dr. Karen Belkic if you are interested in attending! Phone 08-518 72184, email Karen.Belkic@ki.se

neuGRID report

The Final event of the neuGRID project took place on January 24-26 in Brussels and was a great success, unveiling the structure to the scientific community. You can download the report here.

Low amount of updates recently

The blog has once again been neglected -- there is no lack of things happening at the lab! A whole bunch of updates will follow.