Background: Virtual patients (VPs) were introduced at the dental school at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in 2002. The initial adoption of the VPs was in the field of comprehensive dentistry. In 2007 a prospective longitudinal study was initiated to experiment different models for increasing the adoption and use of VPs based on Rogers’s diffusion of innovations theory. The aim of this sub-study was...

The Nuclear Medicine Technologist (NMT) is a health care professional who is able to undertake the whole range of nuclear medicine procedures. He/She is a part of a team of health care specialists which may include doctors, physicists, radiochemists, radiopharmacists, other clinical scientists, technologists, nurses and others who support and care for the patient during diagnostic and therapeut...

BACKGROUND Majority of musculoskeletal cross-sectional imaging requests have a non-revealing and non-specific clinical history of pain. However, the location of pain is very relevant towards arriving at a specific orthopedic diagnosis. The purpose of this research was to study the impact of skin marker placement and training of technologists prior to knee MRI in detection of clinically importan...

This paper discusses a study of the Radiology department at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The animated simulation model was fed data from the operations database. Several inefficiencies were identified, and suggestions for improvement were explored. These adjustments included six scenarios: 1) Current system, 2) Modeling each procedure to take place with the assistance of only one technologist, 3)...

The materials of the article consider possibilities determining and applying components information computing technologies for various specialties student education. work presents examples formation complex knowledge about principles construction operation software effective use modern communication in professional activity a technologist according to types specialization students starting from...

Carbon has been used as a face material in mechanical seals for well over fifty years. The first grades of carbon used were developed from carbon electrical brush materials, but the continuous increase in the severity of mechanical seal operating conditions has necessitated ever improving grades of carbon. This paper details some of the means available to the carbon technologist to achieve thes...

The role of an educational technologist is difficult to define. This paper reflects on the experience of working on a range of technology enhanced learning in science projects to review a number of working principles which have proved effective in the practice of educational technology. It discusses how these principles relate to the theories in use in educational technology. Three case studies...

This paper discusses art systems that employ image and sound as equal elements. This can be called the evolution of the “audiovisual discourse” in art and technology. Recent software for manipulation of audio and visual material is briefly described, and audio/visual digital artworks, developed during an artist-in-residence-based project, are illustrated as examples of contemporary artistic pro...

The Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) Project of Aviation Safety Program is striving to eliminate poor visibility as a causal factor in aircraft accidents as well as enhance operational capabilities of all aircraft through the display of computer generated imagery derived from an onboard database of terrain, obstacle, and airport information. To achieve these objectives, NASA 757 flight test resea...