Or what is the value of a diagnostic imaging procedure that detects a disease for which there is no treatment?
In the past, natural background radiation was the leading source of human exposure; that has been displaced by diagnostic imaging procedures, the authors said.
Doctors should be familiar with the radiology college index of appropriateness criteria, which rates the imaging procedures for some 200 medical conditions.
For these reasons it is the imaging procedure of choice.
An imaging procedure is used to locate the abnormal tissue or fluid in the lung.
Exotic imaging procedures are necessary because few records of the specimens' original preparation survive at the museum.
Regardless of the type of indicator used the imaging procedure is generally very similar.
She's had to have a couple of difficult imaging procedures.
For example, a patient is having a diagnostic imaging procedure in medical imaging.
Mo-99 decays to produce technetium-99m (Tc-99m) that is used in around 50 million medical diagnostic imaging procedures every year.