RAD4040

Electives

The following are representative examples of the electives which will be offered:
1 MRI advanced physics: MRA and the origin of artifacts in MRI. Comparison between the differentiation of motion by time of flight and phase contrast angiography. Principles of quantification of phase contrast angiography. The origin and expression of machine-dependent signal processing and patient-related artifacts.
2 Mammography: biopsy techniques; additional projections; epidemiology; radiologic pathology.
3 Advanced sonographic methods: The instrumental basis of power Doppler, clinical utility of power Doppler. Vascular imaging with ultra-high resolution ultrasound machines that use both phase and amplitude based ultrasound signals. The instrumentation of 3D ultrasound.
4 Total Quality Management (TQM) in health practices. The evolution of TQM practice. Denning and Crosby processes for TQM. Quality as conformance to requirements. The zero defect model. Processes to prevent non-conformance in health practice. Cycle of continuous improvement. Immediate, intermediate and ultimate customers in health service provision.
5 Advanced radiobiology: the radiographer as dosimetrist. X-ray dose calculation in radiography. Dose calculation in mammography. Dose minimisation procedures.
6 Integrated PACS environments and teleradiology. Diagnostic enhancements by virtue of inter-modality image registration and remote image analysis.

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