Radiography has seen most development over the last 30 years with the evolution of new technologies, but perhaps more significantly changes in education models and radiographer roles. The development of advanced and consultant posts has facilitated the growth of the profession, although the evidence base is still evolving. Through a number of research projects this thesis will explore the growth in the radiography evidence base with specific reference to the extending role of the radiographer in image interpretation. Parallel clinical and academic developments have provided evidence of a scholarly profession which is slowly establishing its place through publication and a growing research base.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2008. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/05/09). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Toledo, 2008. / "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences." Title from title page of PDF document. Bibliography: pages 67-72.

Thesis (M.Sc.). / Written for the Medical Physics Unit. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2009/09/07). Includes bibliographical references.

O presente estudo concerne à compreensão da evolução morfológica entre 1948 e 2010 no campo de dunas transgressivo da margem leste da lagoa do Peixe, situado no Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe (PNLP), Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, e à análise dos agentes responsáveis pelas transformações verificadas. O PNLP possui banhados, matas de restinga, lagoas de água doce e salobra e campos eólicos transgressivos, demandando proteção. A metodologia consistiu na análise de imagens aéreas, de 1948 e de 2001, e orbitais, de 2010, sendo todas manipuladas no software ArcGis®. Utilizaram-se, também, dados de precipitação de 1948 a 2010, obtidos do Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), e de vento do período entre 1958 e 2000, da Marinha do Brasil, e de 2008 a 2014, do Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), sendo gerados gráficos de anomalias de chuva e de direção, frequência e velocidade do vento. Constatou-se que o campo de dunas apresentava extensas cadeias transversais e barcanoides e baixa cobertura vegetal em 1948, evoluindo para cadeias barcanoides menores, barcanas isoladas, lençóis de areia, dunas parabólicas e bacias de deflação em 2001 e em 2010, além de áreas úmidas interdunas. Verificou-se um significativo incremento da pluviosidade anual e nos meses de novembro como resultado do aumento da frequência de eventos El Niño (ENOS), promovido pela fase quente da Oscilação Decenal do Pacífico (ODP) de 1977 até o início do século XXI, aumentando a cobertura vegetal e as áreas úmidas na área de estudo. Observaram-se modificações no padrão de ventos na região, o qual pode estar relacionado aos fatores climáticos, às mudanças na cobertura vegetal e ao uso do solo para a silvicultura. Os fatores responsáveis pelas mudanças morfológicas no campo eólico, portanto, correspondem ao incremento das chuvas e à presença da silvicultura, que reduziu o suprimento de areia e também afetou a morfologia local. / This study is about understanding the morphologic transformations occurred between 1948 and 2010 in the transgressive dunes field of Peixe lagoon’s east margin, situated in the Lagoa do Peixe National Park (LPNP), in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, and analyzing which agents control these transformations. The LPNP has wetlands, sandbank woods, freshwater and brackishwater lagoons and transgressive dunefields that must be protected. The methodology was analyze aerial photographies of 1948 and 2001 and SPOT-5 satelitte images from 2010, and georeference them on ArcGis® software. It was found that the transgressive aeolian system showed morphologic transformations in the analyzed period, because it was identified many transversal and barchanoid ridges in 1948 which suffered reduction in current images, occurring the evolution of both into smaller barchanoid ridges, isolated barchan dunes, sand sheets, parabolic dunes, blowouts and wetlands on interdunes environments in 2001 and 2010. There was also an important increase in annual rainfall and in every November, because the El Niño events (ENOS) increased during the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), from 1977 to beginning of the 21th. This factor increased the vegetal covering and the wetlands on the dunes field. There were changes in the local wind pattern that can be related to climatic factors, variations in the vegetal covering and land use for silviculture. Thus, the factors that changed the morphology in the dunes field were the increasing of the rainfall and the silviculture that reduced the sand and also affected the local morphology.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-05-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:26:45Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 assis_acs_me_sjc.pdf: 596243 bytes, checksum: fb9783652a81f3cb2ec3e7e3c9337fbc (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Apesar de ser uma técnica limitada, a subtração digital é utilizada na Odontologia. A adição do computador e seus algoritmos para equalização de contraste e também correção geométrica, tornou possível a aplicação da subtração radiográfica digital (SRD), utilizando radiografias intrabucais. Neste estudo foi avaliada a viabilidade da utilização da subtração radiográfica digital pelo programa Regeemy – Image Registration and Mosaicking v.0.2.43-RCB (DPI-INPE, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil) em radiografias periapicais digitalizadas e obtidas sem utilização de padronização rígida durante as exposições por meio de registro a posteriori. A seleção dos pontos de controle foram realizadas de forma automática e em quantidade múltipla pelo Reggemy. Esses pontos serviram como coordenadas a partir das quais o programa alinhou o par de imagens e gerou uma terceira imagem de acordo com a projeção geométrica da imagem de referência. Com o uso do Adobe Photoshop© foram selecionados os ROI das imagens utilizando guias e coordenadas. Depois de aplicados os testes estatísticos foi verificado que a metodologia do presente estudo não permite concluir que a subtração utilizando-se o programa Regeemy é inviável quando realizada sem padronização / The digital subtraction has been widely used in dentistry. The addition of computer and its algorithms for equalization of contrast and geometric correction also made possible the application of radiographic digital subtraction (SRD) using intraoral radiographs. This study assessed the feasibility of using X-ray digital subtraction of the program Regeemy - Image Registration and mosaicking v.0.2.43-RCB (DPI-INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil) in periapical radiographs digitized and obtained without the use of standardized rigid during the exposures by registering the event. The selection of control points were performed automatically and in quantity by multiple Reggemy. These points were used as coordinates from which the program aligned the image pair and a third image generated according to the geometrical projection of the reference image. Using Adobe Photoshop ©, we selected the ROI of the images using guides and coordinates. After applying the statistical tests we can conclude that the methodology of this study does not suggest that the subtraction using the program Regeemy is feasible when performed without standardization. It is suggested further studies to evaluate the impact of subtraction radiography with no standardization in clinical diagnosis

Orientador: Luiz Cesar de Moraes / Banca: Pedro Luiz de Carvalho / Banca: Cristiane Yumi Koga Ito / Resumo: Apesar de ser uma técnica limitada, a subtração digital é utilizada na Odontologia. A adição do computador e seus algoritmos para equalização de contraste e também correção geométrica, tornou possível a aplicação da subtração radiográfica digital (SRD), utilizando radiografias intrabucais. Neste estudo foi avaliada a viabilidade da utilização da subtração radiográfica digital pelo programa Regeemy - Image Registration and Mosaicking v.0.2.43-RCB (DPI-INPE, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil) em radiografias periapicais digitalizadas e obtidas sem utilização de padronização rígida durante as exposições por meio de registro a posteriori. A seleção dos pontos de controle foram realizadas de forma automática e em quantidade múltipla pelo Reggemy. Esses pontos serviram como coordenadas a partir das quais o programa alinhou o par de imagens e gerou uma terceira imagem de acordo com a projeção geométrica da imagem de referência. Com o uso do Adobe Photoshop© foram selecionados os ROI das imagens utilizando guias e coordenadas. Depois de aplicados os testes estatísticos foi verificado que a metodologia do presente estudo não permite concluir que a subtração utilizando-se o programa Regeemy é inviável quando realizada sem padronização / Abstract: The digital subtraction has been widely used in dentistry. The addition of computer and its algorithms for equalization of contrast and geometric correction also made possible the application of radiographic digital subtraction (SRD) using intraoral radiographs. This study assessed the feasibility of using X-ray digital subtraction of the program Regeemy - Image Registration and mosaicking v.0.2.43-RCB (DPI-INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil) in periapical radiographs digitized and obtained without the use of standardized rigid during the exposures by registering the event. The selection of control points were performed automatically and in quantity by multiple Reggemy. These points were used as coordinates from which the program aligned the image pair and a third image generated according to the geometrical projection of the reference image. Using Adobe Photoshop ©, we selected the ROI of the images using guides and coordinates. After applying the statistical tests we can conclude that the methodology of this study does not suggest that the subtraction using the program Regeemy is feasible when performed without standardization. It is suggested further studies to evaluate the impact of subtraction radiography with no standardization in clinical diagnosis / Mestre

O presente estudo concerne à compreensão da evolução morfológica entre 1948 e 2010 no campo de dunas transgressivo da margem leste da lagoa do Peixe, situado no Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe (PNLP), Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, e à análise dos agentes responsáveis pelas transformações verificadas. O PNLP possui banhados, matas de restinga, lagoas de água doce e salobra e campos eólicos transgressivos, demandando proteção. A metodologia consistiu na análise de imagens aéreas, de 1948 e de 2001, e orbitais, de 2010, sendo todas manipuladas no software ArcGis®. Utilizaram-se, também, dados de precipitação de 1948 a 2010, obtidos do Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), e de vento do período entre 1958 e 2000, da Marinha do Brasil, e de 2008 a 2014, do Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), sendo gerados gráficos de anomalias de chuva e de direção, frequência e velocidade do vento. Constatou-se que o campo de dunas apresentava extensas cadeias transversais e barcanoides e baixa cobertura vegetal em 1948, evoluindo para cadeias barcanoides menores, barcanas isoladas, lençóis de areia, dunas parabólicas e bacias de deflação em 2001 e em 2010, além de áreas úmidas interdunas. Verificou-se um significativo incremento da pluviosidade anual e nos meses de novembro como resultado do aumento da frequência de eventos El Niño (ENOS), promovido pela fase quente da Oscilação Decenal do Pacífico (ODP) de 1977 até o início do século XXI, aumentando a cobertura vegetal e as áreas úmidas na área de estudo. Observaram-se modificações no padrão de ventos na região, o qual pode estar relacionado aos fatores climáticos, às mudanças na cobertura vegetal e ao uso do solo para a silvicultura. Os fatores responsáveis pelas mudanças morfológicas no campo eólico, portanto, correspondem ao incremento das chuvas e à presença da silvicultura, que reduziu o suprimento de areia e também afetou a morfologia local. / This study is about understanding the morphologic transformations occurred between 1948 and 2010 in the transgressive dunes field of Peixe lagoon’s east margin, situated in the Lagoa do Peixe National Park (LPNP), in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, and analyzing which agents control these transformations. The LPNP has wetlands, sandbank woods, freshwater and brackishwater lagoons and transgressive dunefields that must be protected. The methodology was analyze aerial photographies of 1948 and 2001 and SPOT-5 satelitte images from 2010, and georeference them on ArcGis® software. It was found that the transgressive aeolian system showed morphologic transformations in the analyzed period, because it was identified many transversal and barchanoid ridges in 1948 which suffered reduction in current images, occurring the evolution of both into smaller barchanoid ridges, isolated barchan dunes, sand sheets, parabolic dunes, blowouts and wetlands on interdunes environments in 2001 and 2010. There was also an important increase in annual rainfall and in every November, because the El Niño events (ENOS) increased during the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), from 1977 to beginning of the 21th. This factor increased the vegetal covering and the wetlands on the dunes field. There were changes in the local wind pattern that can be related to climatic factors, variations in the vegetal covering and land use for silviculture. Thus, the factors that changed the morphology in the dunes field were the increasing of the rainfall and the silviculture that reduced the sand and also affected the local morphology.

abstract: Recent advances in geo-visualization technologies, such as Google Earth, have the potential to enhance spatial thinking. Google Earth is especially suited to teaching landforms and geomorphological processes in traditional, online, or hybrid college classroom settings. The excitement for the technology as a learning tool, however, must be tempered by the need to develop sound and supportive pedagogies. A fundamental gap in the geoscience education literature exists because learning experiences with Google Earth, from the perspective of the student, are not completely understood. This dissertation analyzes three case studies in college introductory physical geography (Chapters 2 and 4) and teacher education (Chapter 3) courses at Arizona State University where students completed an online (Chapter 2 and 3) laboratory that used Google Earth as the main tool for landform identification and interpretation, and a hardcopy laboratory and in-field exercise (Chapter 4) that compared Google Earth oblique with traditional stereopair air photo and planimetric perspectives. Gauging student performance in these tasks, along with their formative and summative opinions for `what it was like to learn this way', provide information as part of a feedback loop to develop and improve instructional scaffolding and best practices so that the focus remains on the content-to-be-learned and not the tool. These case studies show that, in general, prior use of Google Earth is usually not a limiting factor; multiple perspectives and supplemental visualizations of landforms with Google Earth's may enhance the learning experience; the hands-on nature of structured Google Earth exploration in these labs are virtual field trips that increase enjoyment and fit within a learner-centered curriculum; scaffolding landform-learning exercises for aspiring elementary school teachers linked to children's literature assists the development of content knowledge for teaching physical geography and spatial thinking; and, finally, despite a virtual globe's high-quality visualizations and promising potential for learning, there is still a role for stereopair images in the geomorphology classroom. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Geography 2014