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Digital Radiology Teaching & Education
Author(s) -
Wiggins Richard
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.20.4.a19-a
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , computer science , multimedia , modality (human–computer interaction) , modalities , digital imaging , realm , digitization , digital image , radiology , medicine , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , image processing , telecommunications , social science , sociology , political science , law
There have been several significant advances in Digital Imaging over the past few decades which have radically altered Digital Radiology Teaching & Education. The creation and adoption of digital modalities allows for an easier integration of digital radiological material into modern teaching tools. The transition from the analog to the digital realm is more difficult for senior radiologists, with large stores of analog slides for their teaching material. There are four important steps in digital imaging for education: acquisition, storage, manipulation, and presentation. These steps mark the pathway of image data from a radiology modality into an educational product. The growing use of Picture Archival and Communication Systems (PACS) also contributes to the creation of digital imaging educational material. Although the last step, presentation, may seem to not be as important as the others, it should be an early project consideration, especially for larger database image repositories, such as digital teaching file systems.