background mri is a new and expensive diagnostic technology, which has been used increasingly all over the world. low back pain is a worldwide prevalent disorder and mri technique is one of the several ways to diagnose it. this paper aims to identify the appropriateness of lumbar spine mri prescriptions in shiraz teaching hospitals using standardized rand appropriateness method (ram) criteria i...

Diagnostic brain MRI scans are usually performed by trained medical technologists who manually prescribe the position and orientation of a scanning volume. In this study, a fully automatic computer algorithm is described which compensates for variable patient positioning and acquires brain MRI scans in a predefined reference orientation. The method involves acquiring a rapid water-only pilot sc...

abstract as uses of x-ray increases for diagnostic purposes, the necessity for dentists to have adequate knowledge about prescribing radiographs also increases. this will cause correct diagnosis and reduces the radiation to the patient. the aim of this cross sectional study was to evaluate the knowledge of dentists from isfahan about prescribing radiographs. for this research a question form wa...

A simple software simulator was developed for MRI operation training and physics education. Users can learn slice prescription, image contrast, SNR change on personal laptops or computers. The helps users with elementary knowledge of understand MR even limited access to scanners.

background: as a major responsibility, health authorities must control rational prescription of drugs (rud). a way to analyze the regional status of drug prescription is the who’s recommended indices. the purpose of the study was to determine the status of drug prescriptions in pharmacies of healthcare centers under the authority of tehran university of medical sciences based on the who indices...