Essays on Radiology

Marie Curie “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” This famous quote was said by the Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research…

Marie Curie, although born into a humble background in Poland as the youngest of five children in a low-income family, went on to revolutionize scientific research and discoveries through her work as a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the treatment of cancer, thus…

Who Is a Radiologist? A radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in medical photographs. They diagnose diseases and injuries with. X-rays, CTs, MRIs, PET scans, ultra-sounds, etc. They preform image-guided procedures but do not normally handle the general medical needs of a patient. They…

Introduction Radiology is the use of medical imaging procedures in the “diagnosis and treatment of disease” (Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, n.d.). A diagnostic radiologist may work alongside physicians to properly choose necessary exams or to consult technologists, while interventional radiologists perform minimally invasive procedures with the…

Introduction Emergency Radiology is a subspecialty of radiology whose growth over the years as paralleled that of emergency medicine, and as such is defined as the imaging and imaging management of the injured and acutely ill. This peer review aims at looking at emergency radiology…

Introduction Technology has evolved since the Stone Age when tools were made out of stone, to the modern era that we are all living in now with tools like fluoroscopy, MRI, and CT scanners. We have come a long way and he use of technology…

The evolution of medical equipment has been one of the bigger focuses of many countries all over the world, from creating better forms of technology to better help against specific diseases, to something as simple as better efficiency in how results or side effects are…

Radiology is a medical stream that utilizes imaging to diagnose and treat diseases seen within the body organs. It is an area of medicine that uses both ionizing and nonionizing radiations for the identification and treatment of disease or illness. Radiology uses imaging technologies, such…

Gamma radiation was applied within the range of 0.1-0.5 kGy at five doses against eggs, larvae, pupae and adults of Oryzaephilus surinamensis. All the experiments were carried out in controlled conditions of Temperature 27± 1ºC and 75±5% Relative Humidity. The results showed that the hatching…