Overview
This comprehensive guide provides all the tools you need to accurately evaluate radiographic images and make the adjustments needed to acquire the best possible diagnostic quality images. You’ll discover how to evaluate an image, identify any improper positioning or techniques that caused poor quality, and correct the problem. No other text is devoted to equipping you with the critical thinking skills needed to properly position patients for optimal radiographs and help minimize the need for repeat images.
• Chapter outlines give you an at-a-glance summary of chapter content
• Labeled images with analysis and correction help you develop your skills for producing optimal images, thus reducing the need for repeat procedures
• Student workbook provides additional opportunities to apply what you’ve learned in the text
• Expanded digital radiography content includes advances in digital imaging to keep you up-to-date in the field
• Chapter objectives help you master key content
• Quick reference tables highlight significant information
• More bone photographic images better illustrate difficult-to-evaluate procedures
• More pediatric and trauma images improve your ability to produce optimal images of different procedures
Synopsis
This comprehensive guide shows how to reduce the need for repeat radiographs. It teaches how to carefully evaluate an image, how to identify the improper positioning or technique that caused a poor image, and how to correct the problem. This text equips radiographers with the critical thinking skills needed to anticipate and adjust for positioning and technique challenges before a radiograph is taken, so they can produce the best possible diagnostic quality radiographs.
• Provides a complete guide to evaluating radiographs and troubleshooting positioning and technique errors, increasing the likelihood of getting a good image on the first try.
• Offers step-by-step descriptions of all evaluation criteria for every projection along with explanations of how to reposition or adjust technique to produce an acceptable image.
• Familiarizes technologists with what can go wrong, so they can avoid retakes and reduce radiation exposure for patients and themselves.
• Provides numerous critique images for evaluation, so that readers can study poor images and understand what factors contributed to their production and what adjustments need to be made.
• Combines coverage of both positioning and technique errors, as these are likely to occur together in the clinical environment.
• Student workbook available for separate purchase for more practice with critique of radiographs.
• Provides Evolve website with a course management platform for instructors who want to post course materials online.
• Expanded coverage to include technique and positioning adjustments required by computed radiography.
• Pediatric radiography, covering radiation protection and special problems of obtaining high-quality images of pediatric patients.
• Evaluation criteria related to technique factors, which historically account for 60%-70% of retakes.
• New chapter on evaluation of images of the gastrointestinal system.
• Pitfalls of trauma and mobile imaging to encourage quick thinking and problem-solving in trauma situations.
• Improved page design and formatting to call attention to most important content.