Design and ergonomic considerations for the filmless environment.
Planning and executing the redesign of a traditional institutional radiology reading room to conform to the radically different requirements of digital imaging are reviewed, with examples drawn from the authors' experience and from the growing body of literature on this subject. Included are best-pr...
| Published in: | Journal of the American College of Radiology Vol. 3; no. 6; pp. 456 - 468 |
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| Format: | pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jun2006
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