Exercises in Radiographic Critique

Helps readers how to adjust positioning and/or technical factors when radiographs are of unacceptable quality. This textbook is a guide to evaluation of radiographs for the commonly performed orthopaedic procedures. It also provides a list of radiographic evaluation criteria.

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This new textbook is a complete guide to accurate evaluation of radiographs for the most commonly performed orthopaedic procedures. Readers will learn how to adjust positioning and/or technical factors when radiographs are of unacceptable quality. For each procedure there is an accurately positioned radiograph with labelled anatomy along with many examples of poorly positioned radiographs. A complete list of radiographic evaluation criteria is also provided. Detailed discussions correlate each evaluating criteria with the patient or central ray set up procedure. These discussions demonstrate how the radiograph will look if the procedure is not properly followed, and explain the radiographic principles involved. Next to each unacceptable radiograph is a description of the anatomical structures that have been misaligned, how the patient was mispositioned, and how the patient should be repositioned to obtain an acceptable radiograph.