The Radiology course for doctors and X-ray technians is administered as part of Rambam's School of Radiology and Imaging.
The following topics will be covered, together with technique, anatomy, and case presentation, where applicable:
- Basic Imaging Concepts: physics of radiology, radiation safety and protection, conventional radiology, instrumentation, innovations
- Computed Tomography (CT): Instrumentation, physics and principles of action
- Chest CT
- Abdominal CT
- Nervous System CT (brain, spine)
- Skeletal System CT
- CT during trauma
- Special CT examinations and operations: CTA, biopsies, drainage, radio-frequency (RF) energy
- Ultrasound (US): Physical principles and instrumentation
- Abdominal US
- Vascular US (arteries, veins)
- Thyroid, breast, and testicular US
- US for urgent conditions in children, including: pyloric stenosis, intussusception, appendicitis, brain of premature babies
- Invasive US-guided surgery including biopsies and drainage
- Invasive radiology:
- Limbs
- Aorta, including aneurysms, dissection, diagnosis, and treatment
- Chest, including abdominal and pelvic arteries, diagnosis, and treatment
- Use of Permcath, PICC, dialysis shunt, IVC FILTER, and more
- Invasive radiology oncology
- Non-vascular treatments, including gallbladder and the urinary tract
- Diabetic foot treatment
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Basic concepts including physical principles, safety
- MRI of the nervous system
- MRE, MRA
- Body MRI (liver, pancreas, urinary tract), breast, skeletal system.
- Body MRA
- Breast imagaging:
- Mammography
- US
- MRI
- Mammography-Guided Biopsies, US, MRI
- Correlation of technologies between various test results
