Study Resources

The resources available on this page are meant to supplement the main content presented within the resident course. Some of the resources presented here are password protected for exclusive access by the current students.

 

Quick Navigation

     - External Web Resources
     - RSNA/AAPM Physics Tutorials (Radiographics)
     - Resident Generated Cheat Sheets

 

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External Web Resources

     University of Washington
         *   Department of Radiology Home Page
         *   Diagnostic Physics Section Home Page
         *   Nuclear Medicine Physics Lectures
         *   Dr. Bhargava's Physics Resources
         *   Imaging Research Laboratory

      American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) / RSNA     
         *   AAPM Diagnostic Radiology Residents Physics Curriculum
         *   RSNA / AAPM Online Physics Modules

      Miscellaneous Links
         *   Radiology Board Review
         *   Sprawls Educational Foundation
         *   CT Artifacts Exhibit
         *   How Radiology Works

 

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RSNA/AAPM Physics Tutorials (Radiographics)

Fluoroscopy
- General Overview of Fluoroscopic Imaging
- X-ray Image Intensifiers for Fluoroscopy
- Fluoroscopy: Optical Coupling and Video System
- Digital Fluoroscopy
- Fluoroscopy: Patient Radiation Exposure Issues
- Survey of Modern Fluoroscopy Imaging: Flat-panel Detectors versus Image Intensifiers and More

Computed Tomography
- CT Image Detail and Noise
- Image Processing in CT
- Radiation Dose in CT
- Technological Advances in MDCT with a focus on Cardiac Imaging
- Search for Isotropic Resolution in CT from Conventional to MDCT
- CT Artifacts

Mammography
- Mammography as a Radiographic System
- Patient Dose in Mammography
- Physics of Mammography: Image Recording Process
- Digital Mammography: An Overview

 

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Resident Generated Cheat Sheets

The following files were generated by radiology residents, and summarize different topics covered within the course.

- Computers in Medical Imaging
- Image Quality
- Interactions of Radiation with Matter
- Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
- Screen-film Radiography
- X-ray Production and Generators