Pocket Guide to Medical Imaging Practice

Jonathan McConnell has experience of writing for Blackwell Publishing on two occasions. He co-edited Interpreting Trauma Radiographs with Eyres and Nightingale, and contributed to Paediatric Radiography by Hardy and Boynes. He has also written for Carver and Carver s Medical Imaging, Techniques, Reflection and Evaluation published by Churchill Livingstone. He has several other publications via peer reviewed journals and is a member of the editorial board of Radiography the UK peer reviewed journal. He has taught at the University of Bradford, held a Principal Lectureship with St Martin s College and was Head of Department in Christchurch, New Zealand. Currently he holds a Senior Lectureship at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Before moving into academia he had 11 years of clinical practice culminating in a position of reporting Radiographer and Clinical Tutor at the Leeds General Infirmary.

Index Layout and Acknowledgements. 1 Positioning Terminology. 2 Digital Radiography Considerations. 3 Plain Radiography Projections. 4 Named Radiography Projections. 5 Procedures Using Contrast Agents +/ Fluoroscopy. 6 Mobile Radiography and Fluoroscopy. 7 Diagnostic Angiography. 8 Contrast Media, Emergency Drugs and Reaction Responses. 9 Computed Tomography Protocols. 10 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Safety. 11 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequences. 12 Typical Effective Doses from Diagnostic Medical Imaging Procedures. 13 Indicated Imaging. 14 Eponymous Injuries and Classification Systems. Appendix 1 Common Radiological and Medical Abbreviations. Appendix 2 Glossary of Common Terms for Medical Radiation Practice. Appendix 3 Typical Normal Blood Values.