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Bioscience 610
Radiography
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Science
Graduate
02/02/2011
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What are some advantages of radiographs?
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Readily available

Inexpensive
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What are some of the cons of radiographs?
 Definition

Radiation is transmitted to the patient and medical personnel

Provide poor contrast resolution

Soft tissues are not visualized well unless fat or calcification is present

Requires several pieces of equipment
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What are some advantages of computed tomography (CT)?
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Allows data from mulitple images to be reconstructed to produce images in planes other than the ones that were obtain

Imagine time is about 5-10 minutes
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