RADIOLOGY TOWARDS HEALTH Flashcards
The art and science that deals with the study and use of ionizing radiation and other imaging modalities to determine the absence or presence of disease.
Radiologic Technology
Two modalities of Radiologic Technology
Diagnostic and Therapeutic
An examination that is limited to diagnosing patients. MRI, Ultrasound, X-ray, CT Scan.
Diagnostic Modality
Involves imaging and therapy like PET Scan, Gammanite, Linear accelerator, machines that emit radiation at a certain dose for the treatment of cancer.
Therapeutic Modality
Patho means
Disease
Logy means
Study
Study of Diseases
Pathology
Cobalt 60 machine
cancer
Gammatile
Brain tumor
Cyberknife
tumor in any part of the body
Radiotherapy
cancer
state of complete, physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Health
Now exist for many of the worst childhood diseases
Vaccines
Reflect the cultural, economic, ethical, spiritual, moral framework of society
Health
Application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices medicines, vaccines
Health Technologies
Tools that clinicians and individuals used to treat illnesses
Health Technologies
True or False: New means better
True
Dependent to Technology
Technicism
Complex combination of external physical circumstances
Environment
Thin layer of earth’s surface
Biosphere
Weaken the radiation
Lead
Involves therapy for treating
Therapeutic modalities
Mosquito bite
Wuchereria Bancrofti
True or False: Technologies are mostly designed first for economic or ergonomic effect rather than the environment
True