Known / Unknowns of Everyday Radiology Practice


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Directly addresses common issues that crop up daily in radiology practice, but that are often not dealt with or answered correctly because of various myths and lack of current knowledge. This book tackles these issues and demystifies issues related to radiation risk, usage of contrast media, contrast media reactions, pregnancy and radiation and contrast media, patient consent, patient rights, etc.







Radiology Secrets Plus E-Book


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Radiology Secrets Plus—a Secrets Series title in the new PLUS format—offers an easy-to-read, information-at-your-fingertips approach to radiology. Drs. E. Scott Pretorius and Jeffrey A. Solomon provide the expert perspective you need to grasp the nuances of this specialty. This new edition offers more information and expanded full color visual elements to provide an overall enhanced learning experience. All this, along with the popular question-and answer approach, makes it a perfect concise board review tool and a handy clinical reference. Maintains the popular and trusted Secrets Series® format, using questions and short answers for effective and enjoyable learning. Provides the most current overview and authoritative coverage of all topics thanks to contributions from an impressive list of experts in the field of radiology. Introduces the new PLUS format, with an expanded size and layout and full color for easier review, more information, and more visual elements for an overall enhanced experience. Provides the current standards of radiology practice through thorough updates to every chapter that reflect the most up-to-date information. Contains more, larger images (including new full color PET and CT images), to offer a clearer picture of what is seen is practice.




Radiology Sourcebook


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Douglas P. Beall, MD, summarizes the early experiences of established clinicians to create a compendium of everything you need to know during your formative years in radiology. Written for radiology residents and fellows and newly minted radiologists, the Radiology Sourcebook provides vital professional information and sound guidance on such critical issues as resident employment, Board examinations and test results, review courses, fellowships, and CAQs, as well as practical advice on finding a job and what you should know about your professional contract. The book also offers the radiology trainee a proven framework for performing basic procedures in general radiology, understanding the tools and instruments essential to those procedures, obtaining the images needed to make a diagnosis, and reporting the examination once they have been obtained.




Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Procedures


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Chapman & Nakielny’s Guide to Radiological Procedures provides a complete guide to all the imaging procedures and techniques that radiology trainees and advanced practice radiographers might be expected to undertake as part of their routine clinical practice. The eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect the continually changing skills, imaging practices and technology that radiology trainees must navigate every day. It clearly describes the optimal imaging methods and intervention techniques required for different clinical scenarios, with information on methods, indications, equipment, patient preparation, technique, aftercare, complications and further reading for each. Along with its sister book, Chapman & Nakielny’s Guide to Radiological Diagnosis, this Guide is the most comprehensive text available for trainees to develop the essential skills they need in this fast moving and highly sought after field. Comprehensive and well-referenced – suitable for trainees in modern Radiology Departments Fully reviewed and updated throughout to incorporate latest techniques, clinical practice developments and key recent national and international guidelines Standard headings and sections divided by anatomical regions make the book easy to navigate Easy explanations – a perfect study aid for FRCR and similar examinations Detailed description of diagnostic and interventional radiology procedures relevant to daily clinical practice New chapter on Paediatric Radiology




A Guide for Radiologists


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Pediatric Radiology Casebase


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Pediatric Radiology Casebase, Second Edition, is a highly anticipated revision of a bestselling board exam review and clinical reference. Each detailed case presentation explains the decision making behind the diagnosis, helping pediatric radiologists and residents easily manage similar cases in their daily practice. Key Features: Almost 700 completely updated, state-of-the-art images accompany the cases Self-study format allows readers to make their own diagnoses and compare them to the explanations provided with each case Complete coverage of congenital, developmental, and metabolic disorders as well as pediatric syndromes and interventional procedures Access to practical, dynamic imaging findings in video format on Thieme's Media Center is included Presenting a wide variety of cases, from the simple to the complex, this book is an ideal study guide for residents as well as an excellent reference for practicing radiologists.




Introduction to the Mathematics of Medical Imaging


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At the heart of every medical imaging technology is a sophisticated mathematical model of the measurement process and an algorithm to reconstruct an image from the measured data. This book provides a firm foundation in the mathematical tools used to model the measurements and derive the reconstruction algorithms used in most of these modalities. The text uses X-ray computed tomography (X-ray CT) as a 'pedagogical machine' to illustrate important ideas and its extensive discussion of background material makes the more advanced mathematical topics accessible to people with a less formal mathematical education. This new edition contains a chapter on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a revised section on the relationship between the continuum and discrete Fourier transforms, an improved description of the gridding method, and new sections on both Grangreat's formula and noise analysis in MR-imaging. Mathematical concepts are illuminated with over 200 illustrations and numerous exercises.




Chapman & Nakielny's Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis


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Chapman & Nakielny's Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis is a well-loved radiology resource, used by trainees and practitioners worldwide to hone their knowledge of radiological differential diagnosis for the most commonly encountered conditions throughout the body. It is an invaluable quick-reference companion in everyday practice, as well as an essential study tool when preparing for the FRCR or similar examinations. First published 35 years ago Stephen Chapman and Richard Nakielny's original aims remain as relevant today as when the book was originally conceived. However radiology has expanded rapidly in recent years and this Seventh Edition is the biggest revision this book has had in its long history with major changes incorporated into nearly every section. - Comprehensive lists of differential diagnoses to aid effective diagnoses - Closely aligned to the needs of current FRCR curriculum - Brief, to the point text and clear page format allows for rapid access to key information - Part 2 of the book has been restructured to focus on multisystem disorders which cannot be fully covered in the individual chapters in Part 1. - A new chapter on Nuclear Medicine has been added to reflect its importance in modern medical imaging. - The chapter on head and neck conditions has been significantly expanded. - Important discriminating features have been added to nearly every differential to aid the reader in developing a strategy for reaching a diagnosis. - The top differentials in each list which are considered important for radiology trainees to learn for exams are underlined.




If...Then


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We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives. Life, however, is not blindly controlled or determined by algorithms. Nor are we simply victims of an ever-expanding artificial intelligence. Rather than looking at how technologies shape or are shaped by political institutions, this book is concerned with the ways in which informational infrastructure may be considered political in its capacity to shape social and cultural life. It looks specifically at the conditions of algorithmic life -- how algorithms work, both materially and discursively, to create the conditions for sociality and connectivity. The book argues that the most important aspect of algorithms is not what they are in terms of their specific technical details but rather how they become part of social practices and how different people enlist them as powerful brokers of information, communication and society. If we truly want to engage with the promises of automation and predictive analytics entailed by the promises of "big data", we also need to understand the contours of algorithmic life that condition such practices. Setting out to explore both the specific uses of algorithms and the cultural forms they generate, this book offers a novel understanding of the power and politics of algorithmic life as grounded in case studies that explore the material-discursive dimensions of software.