The CT Basics series is the perfect learning tool for the classroom, online educational courses and staff trainings. The package is licensed for educational or institutional use and includes two CD-ROMs containing all 12 CT Basics modules, a test bank of 300 questions and a library of more than 1,000 images. \\The modules can be viewed using any of the popular Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari, or uploaded to learning management systems such as Blackboard and WebCT. The CDs also contain images in JPEG format and a test bank of questions in both Microsoft Word and Adobe Captivate files.\\This CT Basics package is intended for educational institutions, medical facilities, clinics, hospitals, libraries and other facilities interested in teaching the fundamentals of computed tomography. Loaded on RT LAN, and on Moodle .

Update to the 2010 series.\\RES-RT CD-ROM 616.075 CTB 2012.

Module 1: Fundamentals. Covers the history and evolution of CT, including the design elements of the modern CT scanner. -- Module 2: Equipment and Instrumentation. Explores the mechanisms of CT apparatus and explains how the operator can affect the quality of each image. -- Module 3: Data Acquisition. Describes how components of modern CT scanners construct images and how images are affected by selectable scan factors. -- Module 4: Image Processing and Reconstruction. Focuses on the tools and applications needed for viewing, specialized scanning and archiving CT data. -- Module 5: Patient Safety. Demonstrates the methods used to measure patient dose, increase patient safety and reduce occupational exposure in CT. -- Module 6: Image Quality. Illustrates how image quality is a balance between selectable factors and radiation dose to the patient. -- Module 7: Procedures. Explores routine head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, thoracic, lumbar spine and extremity examinations, as well as CT angiography of the chest. -- Module 8: Cross-sctional Anatomy of the Head and Neck. Provides the necessary tools for understanding anatomy in three dimensions by demonstrating the location, function and appearance of major structures in the head and neck. -- Module 9: Cross-sectional Anatomy of the Chest, Abdomen and Pelvis. Provides the necessary tools for understanding anatomy in three dimensions by demonstrating the location, function and appearance of major structures in the thorax (chest), abdomen and pelvis. -- Module 10: Additional Applications. Covers advanced CT scanning techniques and the postprocessing applications that can be used to manipulate volumes of data.-- Module 11: Pathology part 1. Describes the distinct appearance of pathological conditions on CT using image data, the appearance of pathologies such as hernia, pancreatitis and sinus mass as well as CT images acquired during CT biopsy and the evaluation of traumatic injury using CT imagery. -- Module 12: Pathology part 2. Explores the use of CT and CT volume rendering techniques in the evaluation of abdominal masses, vascular pathologies, calcium scoring and GI diseases such as appendicitis, bezoar and colorectal cancer. -- Image Library -- Test Bank.