Impact of Medical Imaging in Healthcare Patricia Anders, Enterprise Radiation Safety Officer for WellMed Medical Management & Bexar Imaging
Patricia Anders, Enterprise Radiation Safety Officer for WellMed Medical Management & Bexar Imaging
Imaging technology has progressed to levels unimaginable to physicians who first used X-rays after German professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen made his discovery in 1895.
With the advent of each modern imaging technique –computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and digital
medical imaging– today’s health care providers have access to increasingly accurate images with which to screen, diagnose and guide them when treating patients.
Mammography might be the best known of the technologies. Long a standard in women’s healthcare, millions of women the world over have had this screening that can detect a cancerous growth in the early stages or before it begins to spread.