Advances in Paleoimaging: Applications for Paleoanthropology, Bioarcheology, and Cultural Artifacts

Ronald Beckett and Gerald Conlogue

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – PHOTOGRAPHY ASSOCIATED WITH PALEOIMAGING: WITH NOTES ON VIDEOGRAPHY, LIDAR, GROUND PENETRATING RADAR, AND 3D SURFACE SCANNING  Ronald Beckett and Michael Wright

Chapter 2 – ENDOSCOPY IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS  Ronald Beckett:

Chapter 3 – XRF (X-ray Fluorescence)  Ronald Beckett

Chapter 4 – PLANE RADIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY, MAMMOGRAPHY, TOMOSYNTHESES, AND FLUOROSCOPY  Gerald Conlogue, Robert Lombardo, Bill Hennessy, Mark Viner, and Alicia Giaimo

Chapter 5 – CONTRAST MEDIA Gerald Conlogue and Ronald Beckett    

Chapter 6 – INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY Robert Lombardo and Gerald Conlogue

Chapter 7 – COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT), MULTI-DETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MDCT), MICRO CT, AND CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT)  Gerald Conlogue, Andrew Nelson and Alan Lurie

Chapter 8 – MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING John Posh and Gerald Conlogue

Chapter 9 – DEVELOPMENT OF STUDY STRATEGIES - Introduction

Section 1 – ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS Ronald Beckett and Andrew Nelson

Section 2 –DETERMINING IMAGING NEEDS Gerald Conlogue, Ronald Beckett and Mark Viner       

Section 3 – WORKFLOW (THROUGHPUT) – SYSTEMS DESIGN FOR FIELD, RESEARCH Gerald Conlogue, Ronald

Beckett, and Mark Viner

Section 4 – RADIOGRAPHIC DATA FORMATS, GRAPHIC SOFTWARE AND ONLINE DATA REPOSITORIES  Andrew

Nelson

Section 5 – INTERPRETATION STRATEGIES Gerald Conlogue, Sahar Saleem and Péter Zádori, PhD MD

Section 6 – INTEGRATION OF BIOARCHAEOLOGY AND BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF CARE MODELS Ronald Beckett

Section 7 –FIELD PALEOIMAGING SAFETY AND HEALTH CHALLENGES Ronald Beckett and Mark Viner

Section 8 – RADIATION PROTECTION AND SAFETY Mark Viner and Gerald Conlogue

APPENDIX

            Appendix A – Recording Form for Plane Radiographic Examination – Field Data Sheet

            Appendix B – Recording Form for Computed Tomography

            Appendix C – Recording Form for MicroCT

            Appendix D – Recording Form for XRF

            Appendix E – Recording Form for Endoscopy         

Appendix F – Radiologist Preliminary Interpretations Form

            Appendix G – Example of Risk Assessment Documentation

            Appendix H – Expedition Kit List – Papua New Guinea

            Appendix I – Statement of Health

Appendix J – Radiation Protection Examples from the Oxford Project (see Chapter 9  section 8):

J.1– Risk Assessment and Dose Calculation for Oxford Project

J.2 – Local Radiation Rules for Oxford Project