NERS alum Crystal A. Green played key role in designing online fluoroscopy course
The course aims to enhance patient care, safety, and professional knowledge in fluoroscopic imaging.
Crystal A. Green (NERS PhD ’19), a diagnostic medical physicist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, played a key role in designing an online fluoroscopy course. The course, titled “ALARA in Fluoroscopy: Safe and Effective Fluoroscopy Use,” is available on Joint Knowledge Online (JKO) and is mandated by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) for fluoroscopy operators, supervisors, practitioners, and prescribers. ALARA stands for “as low as reasonably achievable,” emphasizing the importance of minimizing radiation exposure while ensuring effective medical procedures.
Green and her team collaborated to create the course, addressing principles of radiation protection, techniques to reduce exposure, and factors affecting image quality in fluoroscopy. The course aims to enhance patient care, safety, and professional knowledge in fluoroscopic imaging.
Green’s thesis involved the development and validation of deformable registration methods to relate corresponding masses in 3D x-ray (breast CT, Digital Breast Tomosynthesis) and 3D ultrasound (Automated Breast Ultrasound- ABUS) breast images.