SCOPE: The scope of the ISR comprises all branches of diagnostic radiology including x-ray, sonography, magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, and interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, and biology and physics as related to medical imaging
PURPOSES
The ISR shall be a nonprofit organization whose objectives are the following:
A. As a representative nongovernmental organization (NGO) to facilitate the global endeavors of the ISR’s member organizations to improve patient care and population health through medical imaging.
B. To accept, hold, invest, and administer any property – real, personal, or mixed – by gift, devise, bequest, purchase, lease, loan, or otherwise, absolutely or in trust, for any of the foregoing purposes and carry out the directions and exercise the powers contained in any trust or other instrument under which such property may be received, including, but without limitation, the expenditure of the principal, as well as the income, of any property so received, if authorized or directed in such trust or other instrument. If any such property is received without any designation of specific use, the ISR shall expend the income and principal thereof for any one or more of the foregoing purposes in such manner and amounts and at such time or times as deemed proper by the Executive Committee.
C. To have and exercise all other powers and authority now or hereafter conferred upon not-for-profit corporations under the laws of the State of Illinois, (USA).
D. No part of the net earnings of the ISR shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to, its officers, directors, members or other private persons, except that the ISR shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in this section.