-In detecting congenital, inflammatory, traumatic, degenerative & neoplastic disease

-Certain diseases need only plain X-rays for diagnosis e.g. in bone, lungs, intestines, kidneys & gall bladder stones

Differential Diagnosis:
Infiltrate/ inflammatory process
Mass/tumor
Fluid
Lithiasis
Foreign ody e.g. coin

Pneumoperitoneum
Pneumothorax
Pneumomediastinum
Pneumopericardium
Tumor

-To evaluate the esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb and the prox small bowel segments

\ue002No radiation risk
\ue002Non-invasive
\ue002Inexpensive
\ue002Painless
\ue002Don\u2019t require contrast material
\ue002Sedation is not required

-Well defined
-Round or oval shape
-Anechoic
-Enhance through transmission

image quality as the overlying adipose tissue
-Have trouble penetrating bone
-Performs very poorly when there is gas
-It is operator-dependent

signs in te breast even years before a patient or physician would be able to feel a breast cancer lump

-Screening mammography can assist in the detection of disease even if a woman has no complaints of symptoms

-The appearance of an image may be compromised if there is powder on the breasts or undergone breast surgery

-Technique that uses X-rays to take many multiple \u201ccross-section\u201d images of the body, which are then assembled into a three- dimensional image by a computer. It is painless

IV contrast
-Exposes patient to radiation
-Contrast toxicity or allergy

-Technique that uses a magnetic field and radio waves to take multiple cross-section images of the body, which are then assembled into a three- dimensional image by a computer

\ue000No radiation
\ue000NO bony or air artifac
\ue000Multi-section imaging
\ue000High intrinsic contrast
\ue000Specificity & extension of disease is

or other metallic implants
-More expensive than the price for CT
-Not very useful for bones

-Even very slight movement of the part being scanned can cause very distorted images that will have to be repeated