What Are the Different Types of Medical Diagnostic Imaging?
Medical diagnostic imaging refers to technologies that create images of the inside of the body in order to diagnose a medical condition or disease. When doctors assess a patient’s signs and symptoms in order to identify the patient’s condition or disease, the process and conclusion reached is called a medical diagnosis. Because signs and symptoms do not always present themselves on the outside body, doctors use medical diagnostic imaging to check for abnormalities inside the body. Different types of medical diagnostic imaging include X-ray, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine scans. A patient’s experience will depend on what type of technology is used, but most imaging procedures are fast and cause the patient minimal discomfort.
