MEDICAL INSTAGRAM's (MRI & X-RAY)
The uses?
Used to find if a patient has medial conditions such as heart disease, brain abnormalities, cancer spread, infection. bone and thyroid disease.
MRI Scans
To diagnose spinal cord injury, brain, and nervous system disorders.
Used to view bone. muscle, tumors and blood vessels.
They are used to see if you have a broken or fractured and can also be used for bone deficit disorders.
Recall the four modern image tools?
Positron Emission Tomography
Also Known As PET procedures
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Also Known As MRI scans
Computer Axial Tomography
Also known as CAT scans
How the different tools are used for diagnostics?
PET procedures
Patients are injected with a low dose of radiation known as radio-pharmaceutical that is traced by the PET scanner.
MRI scans
Uses magnetic field instead of radiation.
They are more detailed and can view organs and soft tissue.
Is a form of electromagnetic radiation that has a high beam that passes into the soft tissue and not passing through. The tissue is shown as a light gray and the bone is shown as white.
Advantages?
PET scans
Finds out medial conditions if you have them.
Doesn't expose patients to radiation
X-RAY
Shows if you broke your bone
CAT scans
It can scan over. It can visibly show tissue for diagnostics through computer enhanced imaging.
Uses 360
Drawbacks?
PET Scans
Cancer from over dosage of radiation
CAT Scans
MRI
Patients who have metal implants can not be exposed to MRI and some may experience anxiety from claustrophobic environment presented by the machine.
X-RAYS
Anxiety
Claustrophobia
The X-RAY can alter molecules in the body, there is potential that the patient can develop cancer from over expose
