Component 6; Unit 7: Medical Imaging Systems
Description:
Definition of medical imaging, describes the purpose, processes, and management issues of medical imaging systems, analyzes the economic and technological factors that must be considered in the adoption of digital displays in radiology departments, looks at the major challenges with imaging systems faced by health care institutions and informaticians, and examines the future directions for imaging systems.
Objectives:
- Examine the purposes, processes, and management issues
- Understand the economic and technological factors associated with digital displays
- Describe the major challenges
- Describe the future directions
Component 6; Unit 7; Lecture 7 comp6_unit7_lecture_slides
Medical Imaging Systems: 1) Definition, purpose, processes and issues of medical imaging systems; 2) Economic and technological factors; 3) Major challenges with imaging systems; 4) Future of imaging systems
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