[Development of Image Database for Kiken-yochi Training (KYT) in Radiology Practice].

Kiken-yochi Training (KYT) has been introduced in many hospitals as medical safety education in many departments, with the exception of radiology. KYT is also not used in the contents of medical safety lectures in the education of students for radiological technologists. One of the reasons for this is that the images for KYT (KYT images) cannot be created at each hospital or easily obtained on the website.

[The Prevention of the Root Accident in the Department of Radiological Examination Room -Analysis of the Results of Questionnaire Survey about Medical Accident to Many Hospital].

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of incidents related to routes and drains that occur in the radiological examination room for the prevention of these incidents.

Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey on incident cases that occurred in the radiological examination room. There were 373 responses, of which 76 responses were related to routes and drains.

[Examination of Ability to Support the Interpreting of CT Images of Emergency Transport Patients by the Radiological Technologist─About the Factors That Influences Image Interpretation Assistance─].

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced a revision of the law about the expansion of duties by the radiological technologist in team medical care in April, 2010. In that respect, the importance of reading images with support from the radiological technologist became higher. We compared the interpretation results of the radiologist with the image analysis by the radiological technologist of the CT images of emergency patients.

[The Knowledge Gained from Questionnaire Survey of the Patients Fall in the Radiological Examinations -Focus on the Severity Due to Fall Accidents].

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors of patient's fall that causes serious injury in the radiological examinations.

Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey on cases of medical accidents occurring in the radiological examination department in medical institutions. The number of responses to the questionnaire surveys was 372.

[Visualization of Effectiveness of the Medical Safety Measures -Suggestion of the Evaluation Technique for Rare Medical Incident].

For events with a low occurrence rate, such as medical incidents, we were able to determine the evaluation before and after taking medical safety measures by statistical methods (testing for differences in population rate). The point of this method is that we evaluated the occurrence rate of incidents to the total number of examinations (number of incident occurrence real number plus number of examinations carried out without any problems). Our results suggest that this technique becomes the evaluation technique as the effective method of medical safety measures.

[Analysis of the Environmental Factor of a Patient Falls in Department of Radiology-Proposal of Scientific Analysis Method in Patient Safety].

We analyzed 197 fall incidents in the questionnaire survey about the incident that occurred in Department of Radiology. In the past paper about the patient safety, there is no report that evaluated incident data directly. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factor of the medical incidents using statistical technique scientifically.

Magnetization and demagnetization of magnetic dental attachments in a 3-T MRI system.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the magnetization and demagnetization of magnetic dental attachments in a 3.0-T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. A high-field-strength (3.

Effects of Imaging Parameters on the Quality of Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography of Cerebral Aneurysms Treated Using Stent-Assisted Coiling: A Phantom Study.

Purpose: To quantitatively investigate in vitro the effects of flip angle (FA), receiver bandwidth (BW), echo time (TE), and magnetic field strength (FS) on image noise and artifacts induced by stent-assisted coiling on contrast-enhanced MR angiography (CE-MRA) images, as a first step towards optimization of imaging parameters.

Methods: A phantom simulating a cerebral aneurysm treated using stent-assisted coiling was filled with diluted gadolinium contrast medium, and MR angiography were obtained using varied parameters: FA (10°-60°), BW (164-780 Hz/pixel), and FS (1.5 and 3.

[The Safety of MR Conditional Cochlear Implant at 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging System].

In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination of the patients with the cochlear implant, only limited data have a mention for safety information in the instruction manual supplied by the manufacturers. Therefore, imaging operators require more detailed safety information for implant device. We conducted detailed examination about displacement force, torque, and demagnetizing of the cochlear implant magnet based on American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard using the PULSAR and CONCERTO (MED-EL) with 1.

Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Value Is Not Dependent on Magnetic Resonance Systems and Field Strength Under Fixed Imaging Parameters in Brain.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the causes of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurement errors and to determine the optimal scanning parameters that are independent of the field strength and vendors of the magnetic resonance (MR) system.

Materials And Methods: Brain MR images of 10 healthy volunteers were scanned using 6 MR scanners of different field strengths and vendors in 2 different institutions. Ethical review board approvals were obtained for this study, and all volunteers gave their informed consents.

Optimization of dual-energy subtraction chest radiography by use of a direct-conversion flat-panel detector system.

We aimed to optimize the exposure conditions in the acquisition of soft-tissue images using dual-energy subtraction chest radiography with a direct-conversion flat-panel detector system. Two separate chest images were acquired at high- and low-energy exposures with standard or thick chest phantoms. The high-energy exposure was fixed at 120 kVp with the use of an auto-exposure control technique.

[Analysis of accidents for magnetically induced displacement of the large ferromagnetic material in magnetic resonance systems].

To improve magnetic resonance (MR) safety, we surveyed the accidents caused by large ferromagnetic materials brought into MR systems accidentally. We sent a questionnaire to 700 Japanese medical institutions and received 405 valid responses (58%). A total of 97 accidents in 77 institutions were observed and we analyzed them regarding incidental rate, the detail situation and environmental factors.

[Effects of region of interest settings in signal-to-noise ratio measurement of clinical images using arrays of multiple receiver coils].

In many clinical imaging procedures using arrays of multiple receiver coils, a uniform sensitivity process is performed using the sensitivity distribution from the body coil. This causes the noise to be uneven, and background noise cannot be used when measuring the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The SNR of clinical images with sensitivity correction using arrays of multiple receiver coils sets the region of interest (ROI) in the region where the signal is uniform, and is limited to the identical ROI method where measurements are taken with noise from the identical region.

[Difference in the level of patient treatment safety analysed by the years of experience of the radiological technologists].

According to the report of the reporting project of medical accidents (from July 2010 to March 2011) which was issued by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, a lot of incidents involving radiological technologists occurred among young ages or experienced ages; therefore, we focused on this matter. We carried out questionnaires for the radiological technologists at the radiology department of our hospital to see how concerned they are about the patient treatment safety. We examined the causal relationship between years of their experience and their concerns about the patient treatment safety.

[Relationship between the effect of medial rotation of the foot axis by ankle dorsiflexion and the ability to visualize the femoral neck axis in the hip joint anterio-posterior radiography: evaluation by magnetic resonance images].

In scanning of the hip joint anterio-posterior radiography, by changing the lower extremities to the extension position and moving the foot axis (base line of the foot) by medial rotation, the angle of anteversion of the femoral neck is corrected. In this study, we assessed the effects on medial rotation of the femoral neck when keeping the planta vertically-positioned by ankle dorsiflexion (intermediate position of the ankle) and making change of the medial rotation angle of the foot axis by scanning the magnetic resonance (MR) images of knee joints and hip joints. The subjects in this study were 12 males (age: 37.

[An investigative report concerning safety and management in the magnetic resonance environment: there are more accidents than expected].

Using a questionnaire, we surveyed 2,500 facilities in Japan to clarify medical accidents concerning the magnetic resonance device and its environment. Data derived from 1,319 valid responses (52.8%), allowed us to analyze the situation of (or the reason for) the occurrence of the accidents and their environmental factors.