Magnification of anteroposterior radiographs of the pelvis is variable. To improve the accuracy of templating, reliable and radiographer-friendly methods of scaling are necessary. We assessed two methods of scaling digital radiographs of the pelvis: placing a coin of known diameter in the plane of interest between the patient's thighs, and using a caliper to measure the bony width of the pelvis...

INTRODUCTION The provision of a written comment on traumatic abnormalities of the musculoskeletal system detected by radiographers can assist referrers and may improve patient management, but the practice has not been widely adopted outside the United Kingdom. The purpose of this study was to investigate Australian radiographers' perceptions of their readiness for practice in a radiographer com...

The United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) is continuing to experience recruitment and retention problems of nursing and allied health profession staff. Consequently, the need to study and understand the key factors that encourage or dissuade people to work for the NHS remains a major research and policy issue. This study provides well-focused, independent research to explore how the NHS ...

Repetition on radiographic films due to object movement that often occurs in uncooperative patients, especially infants or toddlers, examinations are performed toddlers of the thorax and abdomen. At time examination was carried out, then patient uncooperative, it would produce an unclear picture caused by patient's movement, so not suitable for reading resulted repetition resulting film. examin...

A study was undertaken to identify the causes of unnecessary repeated medical imaging examinations. The repeat analysis study investigated repeated medical imaging examinations at two medium sized hospitals in Sydney, Australia. The analytical part of the study was conducted jointly by a radiologist and a radiographer. Overall there were 9.3% and 7.2% of total films repeated respectively at the...

The cervical spine (neck region) is highly sensitive to trauma related injuries, which must be analysed carefully by emergency physicians. In this work, we propose a Hough Forest-based corner detection method for cervical spine radiographs, as a first step towards a computer-aided diagnostic tool. We propose a novel patch-based model based on two-stage supervised learning (classification and re...