A Doppler ultrasound uses sound waves to look at blood vessels and analyze blood flow. This test allows physicians to see if there’s a reduction in blood flow to determine a variety of diseases or complications. Continue reading →
CT scans and MRI scans are both extremely useful tools for radiologists to obtain imaging from inside your body. They both provide accurate images and can help in diagnoses for internal medicine. The process for an MRI and a CT scan are very similar and because they both takes internal images, many people think that they are the same thing, but they have different purposes and technology. Continue reading →
Carotid artery screening is a special test done to screen for carotid artery disease. This disease happens when cholesterol plaque builds up in the walls of the carotid arteries which are located on each side of your neck. These arteries control the blood flow from the heart to the brain. Symptoms of the disease are not often present until it is too late such as when a stroke happens. This is why carotid artery screening is so important. Continue reading →
Lung Cancer is the second most common type of cancer for both sexes in the world, outranked only by prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women. Every year over 150,000 people die from lung cancer, and nearly twice that many new cases are diagnosed. Because this cancer can occur in both smokers and non-smokers, it is important to know if you are at a higher risk for lung cancer and what you can do about it ahead of time. Continue reading →
Radiologists are medical doctors (MDs and DOs) who specialize in diagnosing and treating disease with the help of medical imaging techniques like x-rays, CT, MRI, and ultrasound. Continue reading →
If you are in need of medical imaging such as a CT scan, MRI, Ultrasound, or XRAY, you’re going to end up under the care of a radiologic technologist, also known as an R.T.
But what is an R.T., and what do they do? Continue reading →
Ultrasound exams are used to aid in the diagnosis of many conditions. They can be used as a diagnostic tool to do anything from looking at your gallbladder to seeing your baby develop in the womb. They differ from X-rays and CT scans because no radiation is needed to get the desired images. Instead, ultrasonic sound waves are used in seeing anything from gallstones to capturing and rendering a 3D image of your baby. Continue reading →
The word ultrasound refers to high frequency sound waves. Diagnostic ultrasound, or diagnostic medical sonography, uses these sound waves to create pictures of the body’s interior. The resulting picture is a sonogram. A sonographer is a specialized technician who performs the ultrasound procedure. The radiologist, a medical doctor trained in imaging, interprets the studies in conjunction with the sonographer. Continue reading →
Computerized Tomography or CT (also known as Computed Axial Tomography, or a “CAT Scan”) is a diagnostic imaging method that uses X-rays and computer software to form comprehensive 3D images of the inside of a patient’s body. These images are then used to diagnose many different medical conditions, or can be used in cases of severe accidents to rapidly examine victims for internal injuries. It is a fast and accurate tool with a wide variety of medical diagnostic uses. Continue reading →
X-rays have been used in medicine since 1896. As the most common form of diagnostic imaging, they provide an invaluable tool for many types of both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The use of X-ray technologies in medicine has always included the expense of maintaining the equipment required to process the images themselves, as well as the inconvenience of maintaining and archiving the physical images. Digital X-ray technology, first introduced in the mid-1980s, addresses both of these issues. Continue reading →
