Introduction Application of quality control (QC) programs at diagnostic radiology departments is of great significance for optimization of image quality and reduction of patient dose. The main objective of this study was to perform QC tests on stationary radiographic X-ray machines, installed in 14 hospitals of Kerman province, Iran. Materials and Methods In this cross-sectional study, QC tests...

It has been demonstrated that data entered by radiographers into Radiology Information Systems (RIS) can be used as dose audit data, removing the necessity for radiographer to separately collect data for patient dose audit purposes. Access to RIS data also provides the potential for much more analysis. The data entry process itself can be audited, and is now routinely performed at a small numbe...

lack of unified system in characterizing and reporting thyroid nodules is deeply felt almost in every institution and is a source of confusion among diagnostic radiologists, pathologists, thyroid surgeons, oncologists, endocrinologists and interventionalists. elaborate systems exist but they are not easy to use. therefore many of those systems cannot be utilized widely in general radiology prac...

Medical Radiology Diagnostic Imaging is a unique series that aims to document the most innovative technologies in all fields within diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology, thereby informing the physician in practice of the latest advances in diagnostic imaging and percutaneous image-guided minimally invasive procedures. The contents are intended to cover all organs, and all modern ima...

Introduction:   Nowadays we are witnessing an exponential application of interventional radiology techniques in various communities as well as Iran. Radiological technique is regarded as  the  2nd  contributing  factor in  increasing  the  amount  of  public  doses  in various societies. So that related radiation protection organization has recommended measuring patient d...

Some years ago it was decided that a European curriculum should be developed for medical physicists professionally engaged in the support of clinical diagnostic imaging departments. With this in mind, EFOMP (European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics) in association with ESR (European Society of Radiology) nominated an expert working group. This curriculum is now to hand. The curr...

From the Section of Interventional Oncology, Department of Radiology (S.C.R.), University of California San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California; Department of Diagnostic Imaging (D.E.D.), Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island; Gastrointestinal/Genitourinary Division, Department of Radiology (D.A.G.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; ...