Abstract Panoramic radiography is an extraoral modality that provides two-dimensional information about the teeth and maxillofacial skeleton. It a valuable adjunct for diagnosis treatment planning as it facilitates one-time imaging of all teeth, mandible, parts maxilla including large part maxillary sinus, hard palate temporomandibular joints (TMJs). As tomographic image prone to errors artefac...

Introduction Imagine the excitement accompanying the first realization that noninvasive visualization of bones was possible. German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was working in a darkened room on November 8, 1895, experimenting with electrical charges flowing through a vacuum tube, when a piece of paper coated with barium platinum cyanide glowed. Coincidentally, it had been left near a card...

IN 1925, what was probably the first comprehensive clinicopathologic study of coronary heart disease was reported from this medical school by Benson and Hunter.' It is more than a quarter of a century later. Though the personnel have changed and though literally thousands of investigators have added to understanding of the problem, the basic concepts of coronary disease then elucidated have not...

on the use of the Rays in the field. The following chapters are concerned with the production of the radiograph, its development, and so on. The localisation of foreign bodies in the tissues is fully described. What may be considered the second portion of the book consists of the radiography of the normal bones and joints, and this is followed b}^ the conditions found when they are diseased. Th...

In the study “Is Chest Radiography Necessary After Uncomplicated Insertion of a Triple Lumen Catheter in the Right Internal Jugular Vein, Using the Anterior Approach?” (January 2005),1 Lessnau cites a line misplacement rate of 2%, which was associated with a difficult catheter insertion procedure. All complications were due to misplaced sites, with no episodes of pneumothorax in evidence. In co...

Hobert Knox, m.d. (Edin.), m.r.c.s. (Eng.), l.r c.p (Lond ), etc. Part II. Radio-Therapeutics. Tbie first edition of the work of which this book is Vol. II of the second edition, at once made its mark as a work of reference for the practical worker in a branch of therapeutics which is teeming with interest and suggestive of great possibilities. There is a good deal of new matter in this edition...

Dental radiography is an essential component in the delivery of high-quality dental care for dogs and cats. During the 1980s veterinarians began taking radiographs of teeth using standard radiographic units; however, these units made patient positioning difficult and often resulted in suboptimal films. In the 1990s dental radiographic units became a more common part of the veterinary dental dia...

This editorial is dedicated to an academic surgeon who has developed and sophisticated radiographic techniques to make art out of nature over the last 40 years.