Radiography is an easily accessible modality, with low cost and radiation dose [46, 47], but the diagnostic detail is low (Table 1).
Balloon tamponade has been described as an effective method to control bleeding in a variety of clinical situations; it is an effective and accessible modality, requiring no analgesia or anesthesia, and helps facilitate continuous monitoring of uterine bleeding.
They are both noninvasive and easily accessible modalities, which could be used for rapid bedside evaluation of patients with head trauma [ 1- 3, 19, 21, 31- 33].
Review of current literature suggests that Y bremsstrahlung SPECT/CT imaging will continue in the future as (1) a reference standard for comparing different Y imaging modalities and (2) a more widely accessible imaging modality for qualitative assessment of Y radioactivity.
We, therefore, sought to determine whether more accessible neuroimaging modalities, such as structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorodeoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET), could, individually, predict PIB-PET status.
Short message service (SMS) technology is an accessible and direct modality to communicate timely, evidence-based recommendations to parents across the perioperative period.
With the development of multi-slice CT technology a number of studies have shown that perfusion CT, a generally more accessible acute imaging modality, can provide similar information to perfusion/diffusion MRI, and identify both the ischaemic core and the penumbra (Campbell et al., 2010; Bivard et al., 2013).
If the benefits of functional lung avoidance can be demonstrated now using He MRI, then other, more easily accessible ventilation imaging modalities (e.g. 4DCT and Xe MRI) may allow for more widespread implementation of functional lung avoidance radiotherapy in future.
Although curettage and/or en bloc resection are the treatments of choice for accessible lesions, other treatment modalities including percutaneous intralesional injection, cryotherapy, radiation and embolization have been used for less accessible or recurrent lesions.
Public health agencies need to know whether their messages are relevant for the recipient, reach the most appropriate and targeted groups at risk for injury or death, and are delivered through a modality and device accessible to target populations [ 4].
Ultrasound (US) is an easy accessible, safe and non-invasive diagnostic modality but Computed Tomography (CT) with multiphasic imaging study is an accurate modality to evaluate the abdominal vascular injuries therefore can be considered the primary imaging modality in vascular emergencies.
