| Radiology involves the study of images of internal | | | | especially beneficial for the imaging of the brain, |
| organs of a living human body. A Radiologist is a | | | | spine and musculosketal system. |
| physician who reads the results of various | | | | Ultrasonography or ultrasound technology is an |
| radiology exams. Before the arrival of diagnostic | | | | effective diagnostic modality that uses high |
| imaging, it was only a patient's death that allowed | | | | frequency sound waves to visualize various organ |
| doctors to study the internal organs of the | | | | and organ systems in the human body. It is an |
| human body. | | | | example of reflection imaging that produces real |
| Radiology was initially the branch of medical | | | | time images. Ultrasound procedures are commonly |
| imaging that made use of x-rays on large flat | | | | used to examine the abdomen, small parts, veins, |
| sheets of photographic films for diagnosis. Modern | | | | arteries and the female reproductive system. |
| day radiology is no longer confined to the practice | | | | Because there is no harmful radiation, ultrasound |
| of x-rays and now encompasses other methods | | | | has a critical role in obstetrics and fetal imaging. |
| of diagnostic imaging such as Computed | | | | Ultrasound is also often used during emergencies |
| Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging | | | | for rapid diagnosis of medical, surgical, obstetrical |
| (MRI) and Ultrasound. Unlike other branches of | | | | and gynecological problems. Radiology |
| radiology, MRI and Ultrasound have become a | | | | Departments provides services to outpatients, |
| separate method of diagnostic imaging that does | | | | in-patients and emergency patients with the help |
| not involve the use of ionizing radiation. | | | | of state-of-art equipment. Ultrasound technologists |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a non-invasive | | | | conduct ultrasound studies to provide the |
| diagnostic technique that combines a large | | | | radiologist and referring physicians with the |
| powerful magnetic field with radio frequencies, to | | | | necessary information to diagnose and evaluate |
| gaze into human body, without the use of x-rays. | | | | their patients. |
| It is the type of an emission imagining that | | | | MRI and Ultrasound modalities have occupied a |
| produces detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, | | | | vital position within the world of radiology. Not only |
| bone and other internal body structures, without | | | | do they produce computerized images, but are |
| the use of ionizing radiation. A detailed MRI allows | | | | also involved in the diagnosis of patient ailments |
| doctors to better evaluate parts of the body and | | | | and has narrowed the bridge between any |
| certain diseases that may not be assessed | | | | undetected illness. The demand for radiologists and |
| adequately with other imaging methods such as | | | | diagnostic imaging technologists are significantly |
| x-ray or computed tomography. MRI scans | | | | increasing. Workforce shortages in the health care |
| produce the highest quality of soft tissue contrast | | | | industry are attracting a wide range of individuals |
| of all other forms of diagnostic imaging and is | | | | to begin their career within the radiology field. |