Declaration of Originality

1. This assignment is submitted in accordance with the Research Committee

and the Radiology Department at Fiji School of Medicine.

2. No part of this assignment has been copied from any other source without
acknowledgement and proper referencing of the source; all data obtained
in form of experiments have been used for this research only.

3. No part of this assignment has been written by any other person, except
the group members.

4. It does not contain any material that has been submitted previously for a
higher degree at any university.

5. This dissertation was undertaken under the guidance and supervision of

Mr. Krishneel Mishra, Department of Health Science, the Fiji School of
Medicine.

Signed on 22nd October, 2010.

Sera Rayasidamu- s080005 --------------------------------------

Pritika Chand- s080207 --------------------------------------

Komal Sami- s080084 --------------------------------------

Moshin khalil- s080188 --------------------------------------

Noa Taucilagi- s070426 --------------------------------------

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Acknowledgement
We would like to sincerely acknowledge the following people for the
assistance and guidance for this project.

 Mr. Krishneel Mishra (group supervisor) - for his uttermost guidance

and support through out the project.

 Mr. Khan (Act. Superintendent Radiographer-CWM Hospital) - for

allowing us to conduct experiments on the machines and also for doing
a rejected film analysis.

 Mr. Brown (Superintendent Radiographer-Lautoka Hospital) - for

allowing us to conduct experiments in the department after hours and
also allowing us to do a rejected film analysis.

 Ms. Nola of the Research Committee in helping us analyze our data

and with our presentation.

 Radiographers- for taking out time to fill in our questionnaire.

 Our group members- for successfully completing this project.

 All the other lecturers and students who helped us in any manner.

Table of Contents
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TITLE PAGE
NUMBER

DECLARATION i

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii

TABLE OF CONTENTS iii

ABSTRACT 1

AIM 2

OBJECTIVES 3

INTRODUCTION 4

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 6

7
 LITERATURE REVIEW
13
 STUDY DESIGH
 DATA COLLECTION 13

 MATERIALS USED 15

 DATA ENTRY 16
 DATA ANALYSIS 16
 DATA STORAGE 17

DATA

 REJECTED FILM 19

 QUESTIONNAIRE 23

 QUALTIY ASSURANCE TESTS 25

RESULTS

 REJECTED FILM 35

 QUESTIONNAIRE 39

 QUALTIY ASSURANCE TESTS 44

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DISCUSSION

 REJECTED FILM 55

 QUESTIONNAIRE 56

 QUALTIY ASSURANCE TESTS 57

CONCLUSION 64

REFERENCE 66

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1 – Sample Questionnaire 70

APPENDIX 2 – Sample Radiographers Consent Form 74

APPENDIX 3 – Plain Language Statement 75

APPENDIX 4 – kVp test method 76

APPENDIX 5 – Accuracy of Timer Test Method 77

APPENDIX 6 – Constancy of Radiation Output at Different mA 79

Setting Test method

APPENDIX 7 – Light Beam Alignment Test Method 81

APPENDIX 8 – Shutter Efficiency Test Method 83

APPENDIX 9 – Film/Screen Contact Test Method 84

86
APPENDIX 10 – Safelight Efficiency Test Method
88
APPENDIX 11– Sample reject analysis chart 1
89
APPENDIX 12 – Sample reject analysis chart 2
90
APPENDIX 13 – Accuracy of Timer Test Result Radiograph
91
APPENDIX 14– mA Setting Test Result Radiograph
92
APPENDIX 15 – Light/x-ray Beam Alignment Test Result

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Radiograph 93

APPENDIX 16 – Shutter Efficiency Test Result Radiograph 94

APPENDIX 17 – Film/Screen Contact Test Result Radiograph 95

APPENDIX 18 – Safelight Efficiency Test Result Radiograph

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