World Health Organization Publication : Year 2001 ; Issue 9241546328: Pattern Recognition in Diagnostic Imaging

By Peter Corr

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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
As modern, high technology based diagnostic imaging is moving increasingly into therapeutic medicine, and molecular imaging is becoming daily routine, it is important to remember that thousands of hospitals and medical institutions world wide not even have possibilities to perform the most basic examinations. Today, few other areas of medicine experience such a rapidly growing gap between what might be technically possible, e.g., what can be done in highly developed, rich countries compared to what is the reality in many less fortunate areas of the world. As the ultimate target for the World Health Organization is to provide Health For All, it is with great pleasure and sincere gratitude to Professor Corr, his staff and co-authors that this book on Pattern Recognition in Diagnostic Imaging is now being published and distributed. It aims in a simple, but precise way at assisting medical professionals doing a tremendous work to safe lives and reduce suffering in countries where diagnostic imaging has not yet reached the stage of molecular imaging. We would warmly recommend that this book should not be put on a shelf or into a locker, but be used by everybody whose obligation it is to prescribe, perform, or interpret simple, but often life-saving diagnostic imaging procedures especially in locations where the presence of qualified and fully trained specialists would be a rare exception. The book is developed and published as a WHO Document under the umbrella of the Global Steering Group for Education and Training in Diagnostic Imaging. It is distributed free of charge, and can be obtained by contacting.

Table of Contents
Contents Preface Foreword Definitions Part 1. Technique, quality control and radiation protection 1 Chapter 1, Image quality optimisation and control 3 Chapter 2. Radiation protection in radiological practice 16 Chapter 3. Contrast media in imaging 2 1 Chapter 4. Digital imaging and telemedicine 23 Part 2. Chest imaging patterns 27 Chapter 5. The normal chest radiograph Chapter 6. Pulmonary infection Chapter 7. Lung cancer Chapter 8. Pulmonary hypertranslucency and cystic lungs Chapter 9. Pleural and extra pleural disease Chapter 10. Rib lesions Chapter 11. Chest trauma Chapter 12. Pulmonary AIDS Chapter 13. Paediatric chest Chapter 14. Cardiac disease Chapter 15. Mediastinal masses Chapter 16. Diaphragm lesions Chapter 17. Pneumoconiosis Part 3. Musculoskeletal patterns 83 Chapter 18. Approach to focal bone lesions Chapter 19. Periosteal reactions Chapter 20. Extremities trauma Chapter 21. Fractures-classification, union, complications Chapter 22. Spinal trauma Chapter 23. Facial and pelvic trauma Chapter 24. Bone infections

Book Id: WPLBN0000160366
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Reproduction Date: 2005
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World Health Organization Publication : Year 2001 ; Issue 9241546328: Pattern Recognition in Diagnostic Imaging

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