Welcome!

My name is Ian Cowan and I am a radiologist from New Zealand.

This website is based on my teaching of radiographers in the South Pacific and Africa about interpretation of plain X-rays.

BREAKING NEWS 2 Jun 2025:

Please be advised that this website will be closing on the 13th of August 2025, when the Squarespace subscription expires.

I regret this, but I have not been able to find anyone to assist with and take over the site’s development and management; also I am aware that traffic has been extremely low.

I am sad that it has not been more successful, as indeed the entire WHO/ISRRT/RANZCR project to support radiographers with image interpretation also gained little or no traction.

However I have enjoyed the contact that I have had with radiographers from many countries in Africa and the Pacific over the years, and I wish you all the best for the future.

If you have any views or comments to make, please contact me directly at iancowan138@gmail.com.

Kind regards,

Ian

SKILLS

Learn the five key skills for searching and interpreting an X-ray, using the FILMS technique.

CASES

Send a JPEG of an X-ray to me.

I will comment on it and post it in a gallery of cases for others to see. Go to ‘Cases’ above to visit the galleries.

Go to ‘Contact’ to learn how to send a case.