- Docente: Emanuele Staccioli
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8486)
Learning outcomes
Student at the end of the seminar, know and is able to choose the appropriate instruments to realize a good radiograph of any part of the whole human body.
Course contents
Radiograph, projection and view: definition, contrast, gray-scale, optical density, blackening, magnification, sharpness and distortion of the shape.
Notes on tomography.
Technical purpose anamnesis.
Display on radiograph of anatomic parts: anatomic position, antero-posterior, postero-anterior, lateral, oblique projection and exceptions.
Collimation.
Radiograph characteristics identification.
Radiograph film: structure, latent image, real image and detection process.
Sensitometry: sensitometric curve, contrast, latitude and sensibility.
Characteristics of intensify screens and their use: anti-scatter grids, compensatory filters, collimators and diaphragms.
Instruments for radiation-protection.
Ionization chambers .Readings/Bibliography
• ANATOMIA RADIOLOGICA - F.Mazzucato - ed. 2009
• Slides and notes from the lessons.
• ATLANTE DI TECNICA RADIOLOGICA GENERALE E DELLO SCHELETRO - A.Trenta, A.Corinaldesi - SAS ed. Universo
• Merrill's Atlas of Radiographic Positioning and Procedures - E. Frank, B. Long, and B. Smith – 3 volumi 12th ed.
Teaching methods
Frontal interactive lectures, simulations and group workshops.
Assessment methods
Written preliminary oral examination; oral discussion consisting of the examination of radiographs on diaphanoscope.
Teaching tools
P.c., video projector, blackboard, radiographic cassettes, films, grids and filters.
Office hours
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