introduction quality control techniques used to test the components of the radiological system and verify that the equipment is operating satisfactorily. in this study, quality control (qc) assessment of conventional radiology devices was performed in frequently visited radiology centers of khuzestan province, iran. materials and methods fifteen conventional radiology devices were examined, bas...

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...

Radiology reports are unstructured free text documents that describe abnormalities in patients that are visible via imaging modalities such as X-ray. The number of imaging examinations performed in clinical care is enormous, and mining large repositories of radiology reports connected with clinical data such as patient outcomes could enable epidemiological studies, such as correlating the frequ...

OBJECTIVE Sub-standard quality in X-ray image acquisition and interpretation is common in low-resource countries, and can ultimately result in higher patient morbidity and mortality. This study aimed at evaluating; 1) feasibility of implementing a digital X-ray device in a second level hospital in Angola; 2) quality of digital X-ray images, when digital radiology was in the hands of local techn...

Objectives: Intussusception, an uncommon but important cause of acute abdomen during infancy and early childhood, can be safely and effectively treated by fluoroscopic air reduction. Although pediatric radiology fellows report ample opportunity to practice intussusception reduction, radiology residents report few opportunities to participate in this procedure. Adequate training to reduce intuss...

We present a novel haptic-based simulator for training radiology residents and sonographers. The system consists of a force feedback haptic device that interacts in real-time with registered 3D multi-modality data sets of a subject anatomy, rendered and sliced simultaneously. The proposed system allows to develop radiology expertise with minimum practice on live patients, or in places or at tim...