Introduction: Imaging investigations, such as ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging have become established as valuable diagnostic tools in detecting disease processes and, in particular, establishing the presence, size and extent of tumours. In medicine, there is large number of different health areas, which complement each other. Therefore, with the research, we wanted to establish how well are students of nursing care in physiotherapy informed about some of the characteristics of radiological procedures. Purpose: To check the knowledge of some radiological procedures of students of the nursing and physiotherapy. Our hypotheses are that students generally know well the basics of radiological procedures and are better informed about ultrasound than computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Methods: The survey was carried out with the online portal 1ka. In the survey participated 47 students of the 3rd year of the Faculty of Health Sciences in Ljubljana, consisting of 32 students of the nursing program and 15 students of the physiotherapy program. The questionnaire was composed of 3 parts, each of which was related to one radiological procedure. Each part contained the same 15 closed-type statements that the students answered with 3 possible choices: true, false and do not know. The results of our research were compared with the results of the Chesson and co. research conducted in 2001. Results: 40% of respondents answered that ionizing radiation is used to obtain an image in the ultrasound or they don´t have an opinion about that. 41% of respondents have no opinion whether ionizing radiation is used to obtain a CT image or they believe that ionizing radiation is not used. The majority of respondents knows that CT is not an appropriate procedure for pregnant women. They are also well aware of the presence of noise in magnetic resonance, 74% of them know that during the procedure there is noise coming from the scanning equipment. Discussion and conclusion: The analysis of the survey shows that students are proportionally well informed about the basics of some radiological procedures. They have better knowledge of the basics of ultrasound than computed tomography and magnetic resonance. It would make sense that during the education at the faculty each study program would have an object in the curriculum on the basics of the work of other study programs.
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