BACKGROUND Radiation safety is an essential component in the treatment of patients with thyroid diseases by ¹³¹I. The American Thyroid Association created a task force to develop recommendations that would inform medical professionals about attainment of radiation safety for patients, family members, and the public. The task force was constituted so as to obtain advice, experience, and methods ...

Background & Objectives: Literature has raised concern about the inadequate knowledge of radiation dose and risk among referring clinicians for radiological procedures. Therefore, we surveyed to assess protection assessment clinicians. Methods: A cross-sectional web-based survey where link was circulated 87 who requested diagnostic imaging. validated questionnaire consisted 20 multiple-choi...

Objective: The purpose of the study was to determine safety/efficacy a split anterior tibialis tendon transfer (SPLATT) peroneus brevis/tertius in children with varus feet.Methods: This is case series 5children foot who had undergone brevis/tertius. principal outcome measures were changes pain (measured by likert scale), difficulty shoe wear mean difference pre and post op scores) radiological ...

Preliminary work on the development of measures appropriate for the safety domain is reported. Measures are expressed in the style of the Practical Software and Systems Measurement (PSM) approach, a programme sponsored by the US DoD. Proposed measures are integrated with the PSM measurement framework. Reported work has been informed by discussions within the PSM community and by concurrent work...

background:to determine the prevalence of incidental kienböck disease.   methods: a retrospective analysis of 150,912 radiological reports or images obtained over a five year period was performed of 76,174 patients who underwent a radiograph or computed tomography scan which included the wrist, in edinburgh and lothian, uk. results: there were 5 cases of incidental kienböck disease and 13 cases...

Safety cases offer a means for communicating information about the system safety among the system stakeholders. Recently, the requirement for a safety case has been considered by regulators for safety-critical systems. Adopting safety cases is necessarily dependent on the value added for regulatory authorities. In this work, we outline a structured approach for assessing the level of sufficienc...

JUAN A. DEL REGATO, Radiologicalphysicists, New York, American Institute ofPhysics for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1985, 4to, pp. v, 188, illus., $25.00. Radiology provided perhaps the main route by which physicists entered medicine in the period leading up the Second World War. Among other things, they were needed to develop and service X-ray and radium equipment; to de...

In many cases, crashes at intersections account for over 50% of all urban road accidents. The need to reduce these crashes has fostered considerable research on the development and evaluation of traffic safety at intersections. This paper introduces a micro-level behavioral method for estimating crash potential at signalized and unsignalized intersections for different traffic characteristics. ...

hemimelia as a congenital anomaly is a failure of development of extremities formation in embryonic period. this anomaly is defined as complete absence of the part of extremities and different forms were explained for hemimelia. adactyly is an alternative name for transverse hemimelia and is a rare disorder in the most of animal species. a two months old male lamb with normal vital signs was re...