Everyone has ever expected good news or bad news from the doctor while watching an image in a powerful white light. What is really expected is a diagnosis to which the healthcare professional arrives by using a photograph of the inside of our body. This procedure refers to diagnostic imaging tests.
For more than a hundred years, these techniques have evolved both in the field of nuclear medicine and in the radiological field where differentiating tests such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance, which do not use radiation, and tests such as radiography, scanner and mammography, which does use x-rays.
An image that can save lives
When you go to the Diagnostic Lab with a pain in the only thing you think is in the nuisance that generates, hoping that the doctor to say "take this, and you will feel better.
Dr. Ruchi Gupta, Founder & CEO, 3Hcare.in, explained that “Finding the solution is not so easy, since the ailment is not associated with a certain test but rather the doctor selects the diagnostic scan for the image he wants based on the clinical suspicion he has."
Diagnostic radiology imaging tests are:
Radiography: It is a technique with which a diagnosis is achieved through the shades of gray that are observed in the image of a certain anatomical area, by placing it between a photographic plate and an emitter of a minimum amount of ionizing radiation.
The image of X-ray the people have is the broken bone; in their understanding, it is much more complicated. So, the use of X-ray relies on what the doctor wants to notice.
Ultrasound: after applying an always cold transmitting gel, the transducer or instrument that is placed on the area to be studied, emits ultrasound waves whose echo is transformed by the computer into a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image.
Although ultrasound is traditionally associated with fetal controls during pregnancy, it is also the main diagnostic method for imaging the heart or one of the most important tests for the study of the brain of newborns.
The ultrasound is done to see many things: the stones of the gallbladder and kidney, the study of the liver or muscle injuries among other things.
CT, scanner or computerized tomography: In this diagnostic test X-rays are used to generate cross-sectional images of our body, reconstructed by powerful computers from the information sent by the radiation receptors.
Magnetic resonance: normally when this Diagnostic Test in Delhiis performed, the patient is prevented from possessing any metallic element, since magnetic resonance generates dozens of images or cuts of our anatomy through the use of magnetic fields and radiofrequency waves.
“Depending on your suspicions about the patient's illness, the doctor can order one or the other of the diagnostic imaging tests analyzed. However, within them, those that can affect the health of the patient by the use of ionizing radiation are radiography, the scanner, and mammography” Said Dr. Ruchi Gupta.
The probabilistic effects of these tests, which suppose a greater probability of suffering cancer the greater the received radiation, cannot make forget their benefits, which can improve the health of the patient and even save his life, in exchange for a minimum dose of radiation.
