Medical imaging

Medical imaging is the process by which physicians evaluate an area of the subject's body that is not normally visible. Medical imaging may be "clinical", seeking to diagnose and examine disease in specific human patients (see pathology). Alternatively, it may be research-motivated, attempting to understand processes in humans or animal models. Many of the techniques developed for medical imaging also have scientific and industrial applications.

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Physician - Diagnose - Disease - Human - Patient - Pathology - Animal models - Scientific - Industrial

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Radiology is a diagnostic specialty within the field of medicine that employs X-rays and other modalities for diagnostic imaging.

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Radiology - Medicine - X-ray

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Mathematically speaking, medical imaging usually involves the solution of inverse problems. This means that cause (in this case properties of living tissue) is inferred from effect. The effect in this case is the response to being probed by various means. In the case of ultrasonography the probe is ultrasound; in the case of radiography, the probe is X-ray radiation.

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Mathematically - Inverse problem - X-ray - Radiation

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