Diagnostics

Diagnostics

Diagnostics are various methods used in the medical industry to identify the sickness/ disease of the patient, as well as the location. To treat a sickness one must first diagnose where and what it is.

There are diverse ways to diagnose patients, and some utilize ionising radiation, whereas some don’t. Examples of diagnosis methods can for example be ultrasound, which uses high frequency sound waves, or MR, which uses the magnetic field as well as radio signals.

 

Ionising radiation can also be used in various ways, too, with different types of radiation:

Diagnostics with ionizing radiation from outside the body, is used to illustrate the body’s content and structure, most commonly X-ray and CT.

Diagnostics where the ionizing radiation source is inside the body, is using gamma radiation to locate where its coming from.