Nycomed Amersham Intercontinental Continuing Education in Radiology Institute or NICER Institute was an educational institute for training in radiology

Radiology

Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...

 headquartered in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It was founded by Professor Holger Pettersson, president of the European Association of Radiology and Dr. Harald Ostensen. It offered 50 courses in 22 countries over the world and published various educational materials, including collaboration in publishing of the comprehensive 8-volume Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging

Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging

The Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging is an online medical wiki encyclopedia of medical imaging used in radiology and radiography. Its online version is called Medcyclopaedia....

. The institute was closed in December 2001, partially due to financial reasons.