Medical imaging

Abstract

Medical imaging forms a key part of clinical diagnosis, and improvements in the quality and type of information available from such images have extended the diagnostic accuracy and range of new applications in health care. Medical imaging plays an important role in neurology, cardiology, and cancer centers. This chapter provides a brief overview of the basic physics, instrumentation, and clinical applications of each imaging modality and recent technological advances. Planar X-ray imaging is used for diagnosing bone breaks, lung disease, a number of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases (fluoroscopy), and conditions of the genitourinary tract, such as kidney stones. In contrast to X-ray, ultrasound..