Daniel J. Mollura • Matthew P. Lungren
Editors

2014

Strategies, Implementation,
and Applications

A little boy is carried into an emergency room in urban Africa after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. Physicians see a likely leg fracture on physical exam, but an  x-ray machine is not available to image the leg and determine whether surgery is needed. A pregnant woman in rural South America is in labor that fails to progress after 24 h and there is unexplained bleeding, but there is no ultrasound available to diagnose the problem. A refugee camp in the Middle East shows signs of a spreading respiratory illness defined by increasing cough and fever, but no chest radiography is available to diagnose possible pneumonia or tuberculosis. A woman in India is losing weight and has a lump in her left breast, but she does not have access to mammography in her community for further evaluation.