1) To gain an appreciation for the broad developments in radiography technology and operation from film to digital, CR to DR, and the implications. 2) To understand the major challenges to optimized radiography that can be addressed by physics input and expertise.

Radiography continues to be the mainstay of medical imaging practice worldwide. The last 30 years have witnessed a number of major technological transitions in radiography, in particular from analogue to digital technologies, and from CR to DR. While these and newer advances have addressed a number of prior shortcomings, they have introduced new challenges. Image post-processing, for example, while praised as an asset of digital operation, has often been underutilized and suboptimal. This lecture aims to provide a historical perspective on these topics and to offer topics that worth the focus of the medical physics community.

Medical Physics 2.0: Radiography.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/13010864.html