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01-10-2013 | Opinion
Response to invited commentary: “Event-based versus process-based informed consent to address scientific evidence and uncertainties in ionizing medical imaging” by Recchia et al
Authors:
Virginia Recchia, Antonio Dodaro, Larissa Braga
Published in:
Insights into Imaging
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Issue 5/2013
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Excerpt
We thank Prof. Vock for his noteworthy and constructive commentary [
1]. This gives us the opportunity to briefly provide additional observations to elaborate this topic further. We agree with Prof. Vock that our theoretical approach [
2] may not be applied in a non-invasive and low-dose medical imaging. Nevertheless, this makes the innovation that we are trying to develop even more challenging. We are all discussing about something similar to a “paradigm shift”, in the sense described by Kuhn [
3]: (a) presenting results “sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adherents away from competing modes of scientific activity” and (b) “being sufficiently open-ended to leave all sorts of problems for the redefined group of practitioners to solve.” …