As a discipline, medical imaging belongs to biological imaging, including image diagnosis, radiology, endoscope, medical thermal imaging technology, medical photography and microscope.
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In clinical application, it is also called medical imaging, or imaging medicine. Some hospitals will set up imaging medical centers, imaging medical departments or imaging medical departments, and set up related instruments and equipment. There are specialized nurses, radiologists and doctors who are responsible for the operation of instruments and equipment, image interpretation and diagnosis (in Taiwan Province Province, doctors are responsible), which is different from radiotherapy in radiology.
In medicine, medical engineering, medical physics and biomedical informatics, medical imaging usually refers to the science of studying the composition of images, the technology of capturing and storing, and the research and development of instruments and equipment. The research on how to interpret, interpret and diagnose medical images belongs to the department of radiation medicine or other medical fields (such as nervous system and cardiovascular diseases).
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Imaging Medicine.