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Taking an X-ray image with early Crookes tube apparatus, late 1800s.. For the first three decades of medical imaging's existence (1897 to the 1930s), there was no standardized differentiation between the roles that we now differentiate as radiologic technologist (a technician in an allied health profession who obtains the images) versus radiologist (a physician who interprets them).
The radiographer, also known as a "radiologic technologist" in some countries such as the United States and Canada, is a specially trained healthcare professional that uses sophisticated technology and positioning techniques to produce medical images for the radiologist to interpret. Depending on the individual's training and country of ...
The history of X-ray computed tomography (CT) dates back to at least 1917 with the mathematical theory of the Radon transform. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the early 1900s an Italian radiologist named Alessandro Vallebona invented tomography (named "stratigrafia") which used radiographic film to see a single slice of the body.
In 1975, the University of California, San Francisco Radiology Department founded the Radiologic Imaging Laboratory (RIL). [45] With the support of Pfizer, Diasonics, and later Toshiba America MRI, the lab developed new imaging technology and installed systems in the United States and worldwide. [46]
The digital age’s impact on radiology resulted in a large influx of data that needed to be managed. To combat this, the field of information technology was incorporated with technology such as Radiology Information System (RIS) [7] and Hospital Information System (HIS). These systems would work in tandem with PACS and other imaging technology ...
Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays, gamma rays, or similar ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation to view the internal form of an object.Applications of radiography include medical ("diagnostic" radiography and "therapeutic radiography") and industrial radiography.
A recent article by Applied Radiology said, "As the digital-imaging realm is embraced across the healthcare enterprise, the swift transition from terabytes to petabytes of data has put radiology on the brink of information overload. Cloud computing offers the imaging department of the future the tools to manage data much more intelligently." [32]
Nuclear Radiology / Nuclear Medicine specializes in the internal delivery of particle therapy whereas Radiation Oncology specializes in the external and locoregional delivery of particle therapy. Intraoperative radiation therapy or IORT is a special type of radiation therapy that is delivered immediately after surgical removal of cancer.