OBJECTIVE This article is the third in a 4-part series on women's health issues and nuclear medicine. After reading this article the technologist should be able to: (a) state potential risk factors for osteoporosis; (b) describe osteoporosis and its natural history; and (c) identify methods for detecting normal and abnormal bone mineral density results.

One problem facing researchers trying to find technology solutions for eldercare is how to create a successful field study. Many interesting care solutions are being developed, but few have had successful field trials. In this paper, we describe some of the issues to consider when designing a field study so it will be relevant to the community and provide valid results. We discuss how to select...

PURPOSE Video ambulatory EEG (V-AEEG) is a new technique which could add increased capacity for long term EEG monitoring to overstretched inpatient video telemetry (IPVT) services. We compare V-AEEG and IPVT for diagnostic efficacy, recording quality, patient acceptability and technologist time required. METHODS Forty-one V-AEEG and 64 IPVT adult patients were included. Patients were investig...

Abstract Introduction/Objective The first human case of SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported in December 2019. By late February 2020 evidence community transmission the United States documented and soon it developed into a global pandemic. On March 11, 2020, Mayo Clinic Arizona’s Microbiology Laboratory introduced PCR test for diagnosis infection. Even as testing demands exponentially increased, h...

The work presented here is fuelled by an urge to understand speech in its original and most fundamental context: conversation between people. And what better way to search for such an understanding than to look to the experts? When it comes to human conversation, authority lies with the speakers themselves, and asking the experts is a question of observing and analyzing what speakers do. Ask th...

Received February 9, 2005; revision accepted for publication June 21, 2005. Correspondence: Misa Yamamoto, MT (Medical Technologist), CT (Cytologist), Faculty of Health Sciences, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, MinamiKogushi 1-1-1, Ube, Yamaguchi, 755-8554, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] Fibrin Stimulates the Proliferation of Human Keratinocytes through the Autocrine Mechani...

UNLABELLED Reliable quantitative dopamine transporter imaging is critical for early and accurate diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Image quantitation is made difficult by the variability introduced by manual interventions during the quantitative processing steps. A fully automated objective striatal analysis (OSA) program was applied to dopamine transporter images acquired from PD subjects...

OBJECTIVE The practice of regular dose measurement helps to ascertain the level of occupational dose delivered to the staff involved in diagnostic procedures. This study was carried out to evaluate the dose exposed to the hands of radiologists and a radiologic technologist carrying out HSG and radionuclide bone scan examinations in several hospitals in Nigeria. METHODS Radiation doses exposed...