On-Demand Webinar

In the last two decades, our military and federal health care facilities have transitioned from traditional X-rays exposing film screen systems, developed much like photographic film, to an entirely digital detection system that allows for computer processing of images and digital image and report distribution. While health care providers are well aware of the practicality of these advancements, they may not be aware of the improved diagnostic capabilities afforded by these new methods.  

In this webinar, we outline how application of physical principles of X-rays, with digital detectors and computer data manipulation, can present images demonstrating chest and heart diseases that were previously not readily visible by traditional film screen systems. More recently, dual-energy, dual-exposure systems have been implemented. This webinar is to educate the medical community so that they may better understand not only the written report but the information on the images being provided, along with potential pitfalls to avoid. 

Recently retiring as the Cardiothoracic Radiologist and Body Imaging Radiologist from the Naval Medical Center San Diego, Gilbert E. Boswell, MD, FACR spent most of his career instructing radiology residents and fellows, as well as cardiology and pulmonary fellows in chest and cardiac imaging, and chest disease. Dr. Boswell continues his research post-retirement in dual energy chest X-ray radiography, chest physiology in extreme exercise (swimming-induced pulmonary edema), and low dose coronary CT angiography to detect preclinical atherosclerosis in military personnel (The Aging Warrior Study).