Radiology

There are times when a physician will order an MRI as a way of finding the right treatment for a patient. Short for magnetic resonance imaging, this approach makes use of radio waves and a defined magnetic field to create images of internal organs and detect the...

There are several medical terms that get abbreviated to CT; carpel tunnel (syndrome) or cardio-thoracic (surgery) being a couple of random examples; but, in the context of this article, we are talking about (X-ray) computed tomography. So, what is it? Using Radiation...