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Background: Teleradiology was implemented across South Africa, to provide reporting services to rural healthcare institutes without a radiologist. This is guided by standard operating procedure manuals (SOP) which standardise the quality of services ...
Hafsa Essop, Mable Kekana
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Education, training, and professional issues of radiographers in six European countries: a comparative review [PDF]
Radiographers constitute an important part of a multidisciplinary radiation-based imaging and therapy chain. However, is there a common framework for assuring high education, training, and subsequent practice of profession among European countries?
Andreas G. Prentakis+9 more
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Collaborative learning in the professional development of medical radiation practitioners
Introduction Medical radiation practitioners (MRPs) participate in continuous professional development (CPD) to update their knowledge, skills, safety standards and patient care.
Michelle Turner+3 more
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Overcoming communication barriers in a multicultural radiography setting
Background: Effective communication between the patients and radiographers can be a daunting task in a multicultural, multilingual environment. With 11 official languages, South Africans experience language barriers amongst themselves, which pose unique ...
Cherise Janse van Vuuren+2 more
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Assessment of the effective dose received by the radiographer at the occupational context
Introduction – As part of its work, the Radiographer is exposed to ionizing radiation and subjected to its potential biological effects. Materials and methods – In order to evaluate the effective dose received by the Radiographer in the different ...
Vera Sousa, Luís Lança
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This article describes a method for clarifying and sharpening radiographs. The method uses convolution with a computed tomography reconstruction kernel and a noise elimination procedure to control the noise amplification of the convolution. The effect is to flatten global variations and to sharpen and magnify local variations.
S L Wagner, K T Smith, M J Bottema
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Background We investigated the knowledge of COVID-19 pathogenesis and prevention, attitude, and adherence to safe clinical practices among radiographers during the pandemic and made some informed policy recommendations.Materials and methods The study was
Charles Ikechukwu Ezema+6 more
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Introduction: The need to balance pain management and radiographic image quality is at the forefront of patient care in diagnostic radiography. This study aimed to identify the decision‐making that radiographers employ when undertaking planar diagnostic ...
Christopher Talevski+2 more
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In patients treated with atezolizumab as a part of the MyPathway (NCT02091141) trial, pre‐treatment ctDNA tumor fraction at high levels was associated with poor outcomes (radiographic response, progression‐free survival, and overall survival) but better sensitivity for blood tumor mutational burden (bTMB).
Charles Swanton+17 more
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