Radiology and Medical Imaging.

Radiology is the field of medicine concerned with imaging patients for the purposes of diagnosing and treating diseases and other medical conditions. Advances in medical imaging have helped revolutionize the contemporary practice of medicine. Through medical imaging, doctors are able to obtain a detailed view of the inside of the human body and obtain relevant qualitative and quantitative information regarding body tissues. Common uses of medical imaging include detecting broken bones using X-ray imaging, following fetus development using ultrasound imaging, diagnosing cancer through computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging, and measuring the body's metabolic activity using positron emission tomography.