Choosing the Correct Radiologic Test – Case-Based Teaching Files
Susanna I. Lee • James H. Thrall
2013
Few areas in medicine have undergone the dramatic expansion of technical capabilities experienced in diagnostic imaging, or radiology, over the past 30 years. As precision cross-sectional imaging has rendered older technologies obsolete, diagnostic imaging has become one of the fastest expanding and rapidly changing component of healthcare, providing the clinician with powerful and precise tools to diagnose and treat illness. The ultimate beneficiary has been the patient, who enjoys earlier detection of and improved outcomes from disease.