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This 4 page paper compares the use of traditional and digital radiography looking at factors such as effectiveness, efficiently, cost and environmental impact. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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of waste and is also expensive. Traditional radiography has been used and accepted for many year, but with digital technology and advances in materials there is also a choice, the
use of digital radiography. However, new technology does not always mean better, to consider the potential of digital radiology compared to traditional radiography the two need to be compared.
Traditional radiography uses silver based photographic film, which is exposed to radio waves and then developed. Digital radiology uses an imaging plate instead of silver based film, the imaging
plate is exposed and the inserted into a reader, this then reads the image and creates a digital file of the scanned image, the file is also write protected against
any alterations. The file can then be stored and retrieved from a data base or an optical disc, there may also options that can include the darkening or lightening of
the contrast as the imaging plates record more than traditional silver film, making the images more malleable (Nav Air, 2006). This technology has potential advantages, but this is only
realistic as an option if the images gained are at least as useful as traditional radiography. Garmer (et al 2000) under took a research project to test the efficiency of
traditional and digital radiography in a medical setting. The aim was to use the images produced in a diagnostic function, the most common use of radiography, with the comparison of
both images of the same subject taken from 80 subjects (Garmer et al, 2000). To ensure there was a control CT scans
were also taken. The research took a sample of 80 subjects of mixed gender over a wide age range and compared traditional and digital images of their chests. Four radiologists
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