Radiology about to go digital.

Scale to Assess Leaders' Perceptions about their Workers' Digital Addiction

Background: With the evolution of technologies and the mobility factor, new digital devices have emerged, influencing human behavior and provoking diverse dependencies due to their abusive use. Collective environments begin to exhibit the symptoms of such dependencies, compromising people's quality of life (QOL). The objective of the present study was to valida...

Digital radiology and PACS.

Future hospital information systems should permit the systematic storage of all information generalized within the hospital, including medical diagnostic images. For such a system to be realized, implementation of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is needed. The development of computed radiography with an imaging plate (CR) has made it possible for digitalization of all kinds ...

The Opinions of physicians about Radiology Reports

Background & Aims: Radiology reports are often the only means of communication between radiologists and physicians. Despite the importance of these reports, practically physicians do not give a feedback about radiology reports. This study was aimed to determine the opinions of specialists towards radiology reports. Methods: in this descriptive study, sample consisted of all specialists working ...

Digital Options for Panoramic Radiology

Fingerprints Go Digital

1278 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 42, NUMBER 11 T he new mathematical field of wavelet transforms has achieved a major success, specifically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s decision to adopt a wavelet-based image coding algorithm as the national standard for digitized fingerprint records [11, 4, 3]. The FBI standard, which uses an approach known as wavelet transform/scalar quantization (WSQ...