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International Journal of Radiology & Medical Imaging Volume 1 (2015), Article ID 1:IJRMI-103, 12 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-446X/2015/103
Research Article
Education and Training Required for the Digital Radiography Environment: A Non-interventional Quantitative Survey Study of Radiologic Technologists

Euclid Seeram1,2,3*, Rob Davidson3, Stewart Bushong4 and Hans Swan3

1University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
2Monash University, 37 Rowan St, Bendigo VIC, Australia
3Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Victoria, Australia
4Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Dr. Euclid Seeram, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; E-mail: eseeram@csu.edu.au
15 January 2015; 25 July 2015; 17 August 2015
Seeram E, Davidson R, Bushong S, Swan H (2015) Education and Training Required for the Digital Radiography Environment: A Non-interventional Quantitative Survey Study of Radiologic Technologists. Int J Radiol Med Imag 1: 103. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-446X/2015/103
© 2015 Seeram et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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