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Medical Imaging Informatics
Published in Arvind Kumar Bansal, Javed Iqbal Khan, S. Kaisar Alam, Introduction to Computational Health Informatics, 2019
Arvind Kumar Bansal, Javed Iqbal Khan, S. Kaisar Alam
A person has a broken finger. Model his finger as a bone layer embedded between two fat layers, if each fat layer is one cm thick, and the bone is two cm thick. The incident energy is 140 keV, and the attenuation factors are 0.16 cm−1 for fat and 0.27 cm−1 for bone.
Recollections
Published in Ian R. Gray, Medical Anecdotes and Humour: Myocardial Medley, 2018
But Quality of Life – what does it really mean? Having plenty of money? food? a good home? Or is it having a hangover or indigestion or headache? Is it only associated with old age, or chronic disease, or cancer? Should every doctor experience it before he or she can talk about it? I certainly know more about the need to examine a broken finger or limb gently after suffering that fate myself. Similarly, I am now much more aware of the wretched feeling and fear associated with lobar pneumonia. I was especially struck with my bronchial breathing sounding as if I had organ pipes inserted into my chest, and the consequent delight of knowing that the antibiotic had reached the cause of the problem (to places other antibiotics cannot reach) when I experienced an unmistakable penicillinic acid taste in my sputum.
Adult Life in Ancient America
Published in Debra L. Martin, Anna J. Osterholtz, Bodies and Lives in Ancient America, 2015
Debra L. Martin, Anna J. Osterholtz
For Pueblo groups living in northern New Mexico (ca. AD 1200), a detailed study was conducted for a sample of 66 individuals (Martin et al. 2001). In terms of violence-related injuries, young children were free of fractures and trauma. Three young adult males had healed cranial depression fractures (all slight in expression), and three older males had postcranial fractures (a healed broken rib, a healed broken finger, and a healed broken wrist). Six females had healed cranial depression fractures that ranged from moderate to very severe in expression. The ages of the women ranged from 20 to 38 (peak reproductive years). Three of the women had multiple head wounds, and in four women with head wounds, there were also traumatic lesions on the body as well (healed fractured ribs, shoulder, vertebrae, and hip). Compared to the males, the inventory of healed fractures for women is longer and more extensive and involves multiple wounds for several of the women. These women clearly formed a subgroup of victims of violence and may represent captives abducted from neighboring villages (Martin et al. 2010). The evidence for severe and multiple trauma on women suggest strongly that in addition to warfare, other forms of violence were also being practiced.
A qualitative investigation of masculine identity after traumatic brain injury
Published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2020
Ruth MacQueen, Paul Fisher, Deirdre Williams
Participants shared that having the injury meant that they tended to behave in a more cautious way and that they were more aware of risk. This appeared to be related to their own sense of how further injury may potentially affect them or cause death: [Being punched by someone], that kind of brought home as well how frail, I suppose, I feel which is again emasculating. (John)I know I could look after myself if you know what I mean, as in with fists, where now I’ve got a broken finger, I can't clench my fist and I haven't got the confidence so much to argue back either. (George)