Diagnostic Imaging

Follow the links below to find information about diagnostic imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs), radiography, tomography and ultrasounds.

Reviewed January 2008

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
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Links to information about magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Radiography
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Links to information on various types of radiography.
Tomography
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Links to information on tomography.
Ultrasound
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Links to information about ultrasounds or ultrasonography, including echocardiography.
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Title:   Diagnostic Imaging Pathways
Publisher:   Department of Health Western Australia
Description:   Evidence based clinical decision support tool and educational resource for diagnostic imaging.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   ARPANSA - Code of Practice for Radiation Protection in the Medical Applications of Ionizing Radiation
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   The Code establishes requirements for the use of ionizing radiation in medicine for inclusion in the National Directory for Radiation Protection and adoption by Australian jurisdictions.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Kidney disease - tests
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Kidney diseases can be diagnosed using urine tests, blood tests, imaging studies and biopsy. Early diagnosis and prompt treatment can reduce the risk of kidney failure. Kidney diseases include kidney stones, cancer and inherited disorders such as polycystic kidney disease.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Quality & Best Practice
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Department supports several projects to promote competent, ethical and safe provision of diagnostic imaging services.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   About Medicare and Diagnostic Imaging
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Responsibility for managing Medicare-funded Diagnostic Imaging (DI) services and determining strategies for maintaining and improving the quality, accessibility and affordability of these services is undertaken cooperatively between DI representative groups and the Government as represented by the Department of Health and Ageing (the Department)).
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Changes to the diagnostic imaging prohibited practice provisions of the Health Insurance Act
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Parliament passed legislation to amend provisions in the Health Insurance Act 1973 that relate to pathology and diagnostic imaging services provided under Medicare.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Committees
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Management Committees have been established for each of the Diagnostic Imaging Memoranda of Understanding.
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   PillCam ESO
Publisher:   Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical (ASERNIP-S)
Description:   ASERNIP-S has performed a prioritising summary on the PillCam ESO.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Imaging orders by general practitioners in Australia 1999-00
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,University of Sydney
Description:   This pubication reports on the imaging ordered by general practitioners in Australia, as represented by a random sample 1,047 GPs participating in the BEACH (Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health) program over a one year period. Over 100,000 encounters were available for analysis.
Date:   Oct 2001
Title:   Near-Infrared spectroscopy for fetal assessment during labour
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a light-based way of measuring oxygen flows through the brain. It can be used to try and see if a fetus is at risk of brain injury from lack of oxygen during labour. NIRS involves inserting a cable through the cervix...
Date:   May 2000
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