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Radiology is the medical specialty that deals with pictures of the inside of the body byvarious physical agents, magnetic fields, etc.). Radiology should be distinguished from the radiation, which does not use images, it directly employs ionizing radiation (X-rays higher energy than thatused for diagnosis, and also other radiation) for the treatment of disease (for example, to stop or slow the growth of those tumors which are sensitive to radiation).
Radiology can be divided into threegroups according to their main activity:
Nuclear medicine images generated by using radioactive tracers fixing with different affinity to various types of tissues. It is a branch exclusivelydiagnostic and in some countries is in separate medical specialty.
Diagnostic radiology or radiology: focuses primarily on diagnosing disease through the image.
Interventional Radiology: focuses mainly onthe treatment of diseases through the use of minimally invasive surgical procedures guided by imaging. The X-ray photographs or radiographs and fluoroscopy are used extensively in medicine asdiagnostic tools. In the X-ray radiation used to treat certain diseases, including cancer, exposing tumors to radiation. See Biological effects of radiation; Radiology.
The usefulness of the diagnosticX-rays due to the ability of X-ray penetration A few years after its discovery and was used to locate foreign bodies, such bullets inside the human body. With the enhancement of X-ray techniques,...
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