Items tagged “curriculum”
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Air-space opacification (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Air-space opacification is a descriptive term that refers to filling of the lung parenchyma with material that attenuates x-rays more than the unaffected surrounding lung tissue. It is the radiological correlate of the path...
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Large bowel obstruction (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Large bowel obstruction (LBO) occurs when there is mechanical obstruction of the large bowel and is often impressive on imaging on account of the ability of the large bowel to massively distend. This condition requires prom...
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Bowel perforation (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Bowel perforation is an acute surgical emergency where there is a release of gastric or intestinal contents into the peritoneal space.
Reference article
This is a summary article; read more in our article on bowel perfora...
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Chest x-ray review: disability
Chest x-ray review is a key competency for medical students, junior doctors and other allied health professionals. Using A, B, C, D, E is a helpful and systematic method for chest x-ray review where D refers to disability and specifically fractures and dislocations.
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introduction
there...
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Chest x-ray: initial review (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Chest x-ray review is a key competency for medical students, junior doctors and other allied health professionals. The A, B, C, D, E method is helpful for approaching a chest x-ray in a systematic manner. However, before ju...
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Pulmonary embolism (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Pulmonary embolism refers to occlusion of the pulmonary arteries or its branches, usually via venous thrombus.
Reference article
This is a summary article; read more in our article on pulmonary embolism.
Summary
epidemi...
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Lung cancer (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and non-radiologists
Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and refers to malignancy originating in the airways or pulmonary parenchyma.
Clinical presentation
Patients may be asymptomatic until locally advanced or metastatic disease. The m...
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RANZCR key conditions assessment
The RANZCR key conditions assessment is an assessment mandated by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) for first year radiology trainees prior to starting after-hours work and on-call duties.
The assessment is conducted locally by the training site, where clinic...
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Radiography curriculum
The radiography curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent core radiographic knowledge. As radiography encompasses multiple modalities, its content is split into subsections based on the modality.
Definition
Topics pertaining to radiogra...
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General radiography curriculum
The general radiography section covers in detail the various clinical presentations that require specific plain radiographic investigation, the anatomy covered, and how it is displayed via the chosen view. It outlines standard and modified radiographic technique to accommodate for a wide range o...
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Computed tomography curriculum
The radiography computed tomography section covers in detail the various clinical presentations that require specific computed tomography (CT) investigations, the anatomy examined and the different protocols utilized for specific pathology. It is broken down into region specific sections and is ...
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Physics curriculum
The physics curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent core physics and imaging technology knowledge:
physics and imaging technology: x-ray
physics and imaging technology: ultrasound
physics and imaging technology: CT
physics and imagi...
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Fourier transformation
The Fourier transform is a mathematical formula that converts a signal in time (or spatial) domain t to one in the frequency domain ω.
A frequency domain signal F(ω) is obtained by modulating the time domain signal f(t) to a special sinusoidal wave e-jωt across all time (from negative infinity ...
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Inverse Fourier transformation
The inverse Fourier transform is a mathematical formula that converts a signal in the frequency domain ω to one in the time (or spatial) domain t.
A time domain signal f(t) is obtained by demodulating a frequency domain signal F(ω) using a special sinusoidal wave ejωt across all time (from nega...
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Point-of-care ultrasound (curriculum)
The point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent the core applications of ultrasonography in a point-of-care setting.
Point-of-care ultrasound refers to ultrasonography which may be simultaneously performed,...
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