The system of education in Ukraine essentially lags behind the rate of scientific and technical progress development. The state system of public health services is even more conservative and inertial. Therefore introduction of new technologies and methods of examination in Ukraine, and abandoning the legal but out-of-date ineffective procedures is a challenge. In the end of 20th and beginning of 21st century the Association of Radiologists of Ukraine has defined the introduction of digital technologies into radiodiagnostics as priority tasks, abandoning fluorography screening and transition...

To achieve the set objectives was necessary to perform a number of tasks: - to make changesin regulatory acts; - to update the material base of radiodiagnostics; - to conduct explanatory work with experts both in the center and in all regions; - to organize training of personnel for using new technologies; - to provide quality and safety of X-ray examinations. To unify efforts of radiologists, scientists and engineers, all stakeholders for the purpose of achieving the set goals, the Center for X-ray Technologies was...

Currently in Ukraine the professional association is the one performing the largest real work on improvement of quality and radiation safety of radiological examinations, due to that it continuously interacts with the European colleagues, is not bound by out-of-date corporate rules and can display flexibility and activity of its work. Consolidation of efforts of radiologists, medical physicists, engineers, radiological technologists and other experts makes this work more effective and efficient. Systemic and active work leads to positive results even in the conditions of conservative and...

The material was prepared by a group of authors from the Association of Radiologists of Ukraine consisting of: Ph. Dr. Balashov S., Kyiv Dr. Deresh N., Kyiv Dr. Kmetyuk V., Ivano-Frankivsk Ph. Dr. Kovalenko Y., Kyiv Ph. Dr. Mironova Y., Kyiv Prof. Miroshnychenko S., Kyiv Prof. Sharmazanova O., Kharkiv Dr. Urina L., Kyiv