Medical imaging

AWhy are the advancements made to obstetrics ultrasound imaging so important? Ultrasound imaging is a high valued technology that is used to see many of the body’s internal organs such as blood vessels, soft tissues, or a growing fetus inside the womb along with the placenta and uterus. This simple, pain free procedure is dependant on sound waves that are sent through the mother and bounce off the baby and back to the ultrasound machine. Ultrasounds have been around for some time now, however…

MRI is a unique medical practice among other imaging methods because, unlike radiographs for example x-rays and ct scans and even radioisotope studies it does not use ionising radiation to create an image of the body this is good because if it does not use ionising radiation it will not have the effects that the radiation causes to the human body. But instead of using other means such as ultrasound to create an image it uses strong magnets and radio waves to create detailed digital images of the…

without having to perform unnecessary surgery. From this discovery, x-rays became “a key element in the identification, diagnosing, and treatment of many types of medical conditions” (http://www.healthline.com/health/x-ray#Overview1 ). Over the next century, Roentgen and others who followed his work would introduce new modalities of imaging and also drastically improve the efficiency and safety of these modalities as well. One modality that has significantly improved upon the two-dimensional…

to create images of body parts and organs for diagnostic purposes. The diagnosis from a radiographer’s image can affect, determine the treatment and care of a healthcare team. Wide ranges of imaging methods are used these include Ultrasound, X-ray, Fluoroscopy, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Ranges of dyes or contrast agents are sometimes used to show…

Diagnostic Medical Sonography Being able to identify bumps, inflammation, tissue mutilation, growths, and the overwhelming news of the sex of an unborn child all have one thing in common, an ultrasound. Diagnostic medical sonography, more commonly referred to as ultrasound, is a growing area of the health care sector with excellent job prospects. Sonographers are skilled clinicians who perform ultrasound studies as ordered by physicians for their patients. The images created by sonographers are…

What is a radiologist? A radiologist is medical doctors (MDs) or doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs) who specialize in diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x-rays. What do radiologist do? They treat diseases, such as cancer or heart disease, by means of radiation or minimally invasive, image-guided surgery. Radiologists are often able to see problems early by interpreting the results of your imaging study and can provide an accurate diagnosis…

With the many advances in technology it has greatly benefited the medical field as we know it. Technology has brought the medical field things as simple as electric thermometers to things like the Sonograms. Now that our technology is more advanced we are able to have the ability to cure certain sicknesses, help control diseases, and even detect cancer soon enough to eliminate death. The more discoveries we make the quicker we will be able to find cures for things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and…

Three words, Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It’s the MRI, truly a miracle machine! The MRI has helped people in the past, is helping people in the present, and will help people in the future. Inside is high tech machinery that has both mechanically, and has chemically powerful equipment. The inventor is remarkably intelligent, as well as his invention. Both his religious and medical beliefs played a role in the creation. Question is, how did all this come to be? As a break though in the 20th…

providers utilize ultrasound for prenatal imaging. But how safe is ultrasound imaging? Is it safe enough to warrant a fetus’s exposure? Sonography is a safe choice for prenatal imaging, but there are some suspected risks involved. However, the benefits outweigh those risks as long as scans are completed appropriately, especially when it comes to the 3­D and 4­D ultrasounds. Sonography uses sound waves emitted through a transducer to produce an image. In prenatal imaging, the sound waves produce…

The photo on the right shows a medical technician using an ultrasound machine to diagnose appendicitis to a patient, without the use of x-rays. The ultrasound imaging technique involves using high frequency sound waves and their echoes. The machine transmits high-frequency sound pulses into the patient’s body using a probe. In the image, the technician presses and moves the probe along the patient’s body. This photo was taken in the St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and obtained from *. In terms…