The Lette Association was founded in 1866 by the Prussian legislator Wilhelm Adolf Lette who had the idea of starting an organization "to promote professional careers for women." After he died in 1868, his daughter, Anna Schepeler-Lette, continued his work by establishing several vocational schools which provided innovative and practical educational possibilities exclusively for women. The Association was groundbreaking in its time for the encouragement of women’s employment.

Today, the Lette Association comprises several vocational schools and institutes offering a wide range of professional careers in the fields of Design, Domestic Science, Technology and Healthcare, both for men and women.

One career with a very long tradition of being taught at the Lette-Association is the profession of the radiographer. From as long ago as 1896, the world’s first female radiographer graduated from the Association’s School of Photography. Since then, students have continuously been required to adapt themselves to scientific and technological change. While image plates were manually developed in darkrooms 30 years ago, today complex image post-processing skills need to be acquired and correctly applied. Modern medical imaging techniques, including modalities such as CT, MRI, PET or SPECT, also require a high amount of learning effort.

Mrs. Gabriele Petrich, teacher at the Lette Association, explains how the students benefit from the new developments in digital imaging.

"Using software applications for image post-processing – e.g. iQ-VIEW and iQ-NUC - brings a real advantage to our students. By working with that software, students have the possibility to evaluate and process simulated study workflows without being under time pressure as they would normally be in a clinical environment. Thus, the educational quality of classes in cross-sectional diagnostic imaging is improved remarkably as it is both state-of-the-art and practically oriented. This leaves our graduates well prepared for a good start into their professional lives."