Medical imaging

Medical imaging refers toapplicationimaging techniquesdevicesliving things.

Medical imaging may be "clinical", seekingdiagnoseexamine diseasespecific human patients (see pathology). Alternatively,may be research-motivated, attemptingunderstand processeshumans or animal models.

Medical imaging techniques include, among others:

• radiography
• fluoroscopy
• computed axial tomography (CT)
• ultrasound
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• nuclear medicine,
• positron emission tomography
• elastography
• opto acoustic imaging
• positron emission tomography
• diffuse optical tomography

Mathematically speaking, medical imaging usually involvessolution Inverse Problems. This means that we infer cause (in this case propertiesliving tissue) from effect. The effectthis case isresponsebeing probed by various means. e.g. In caseultrasoundprobehigh frequency sound, incaseradiography (Xray)probeGamma (?) radiation.

See also:

• Medical test
• Medical examination