Medical imaging, how interesting is that, it’s a tool that helps go into depth about how the brain is functioning, and how it has developed. Medical imaging has many great and useful resources. Imagine how great it will be if medical imaging would develop even more than we have it today, we can find many new ways of discovering---BEYOND what we have already discovered. According to Kunio Doi in his article titled, “Diagnostic Imaging over the Last 50 years: Research and Development in the Medical Imaging Science and Technology,” indicates “In the last 50 years imaging has grown to a high state of high level;” as a matter of fact technology we have today can become an even more successful resource in a matter of years. Mary Lou Jepsen in her
“A cat-scan computer generated x-ray pictures of the human brain, exposing the secrets that lay hidden within the skull.” (Ch8, pg38)
In the novel Phineas Gage, A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman, Chapter 2 “What we thought about how we thought” tells about what doctors in the late 1800s thought about Brain Science. Phineas Gage was a man that lived in the late 1800s he had an accident were a tamping iron went through his cheek through his brain and out of his forehead. Whereas there were two schools of thought about how the brain worked,doctor's knowledge and standards were dangerous also their information about the brain was inaccurate.
There are several benefits that we can gain from the development of MRI imagining technology. A common argument for
One of the main reasons for choosing a healthcare career in todays society, aside from the basic need for a self sustaining income, is the opportunity to make differences in peoples lives. With the demand for healthcare professionals and alternative medicines on the rise, so is the need for adequately educated trained personnel. Diagnostic Medical Sonography is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to radiologic procedures such as x-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Accounting for approximately 50,300 jobs in the United States in 2008, compared to the 214,000 jobs held by radiologic technicians, according to
It is obvious that with the comparison of the Space Race, the United States intends to be the first to be able to map the brain. Just like the Space Race, the United States does not quite have all the technologies to fully map the brain, and it enlists the help of the public and will spend millions of dollars to develop and create the technology needed. Just like the Space Race, the United States plans to discover new and useful information about the brain, and as time progresses they will have an abundance of information to map the human
Joyce approaches MRI as a Cultural Icon. As a cultural icon, the MRI symbolizes both the progress of medicine as well as a powerful technology to reveal details about one's medical condition. Joyce proposes that the MRI is not only a icon which is entwined in our life but is also a great illustration of many cultural movements. The chapter starts with the a story to demonstrate how a person's life may revolve around the MRI. Getting an MRI is like opening the box of Schrodinger's cat.
We are trying to deliver a rapidly expanding menu of health care services with a delivery system designed for economic conditions that disappeared nearly a century ago. In 1929, health care as a learned and licensed profession was barely a decade old and couldn’t provide much beyond supportive care. Chronic conditions were rare; insulin was first isolated in 1922 and diabetes was often a death sentence. Sulfa became available in 1935 and penicillin wasn’t mass produced until 1946. The most complicated piece of equipment in the hospital was the X-ray machine, and now we have real-time neuroimaging of brain function.
Magnetic resonance imaging has the potential of totally replacing computed tomography. If history was rewritten, and CT invented after MRI, nobody would bother to pursue CT. --Philip Drew (Mattson and Simon, 1996)
The project, known as the AM-PET Helmet (www.pethemet.org), will sit on the patients head, and can acquire a clear image of a patient’s brain even
By giving patients these scans Amen is able to gain better insight on what might be causing their mental disorders. He can see if different regions of the brain have low activity or which different regions have high activity. This measure of activity helps Amen determine what he needs to do to get his patient’s brain healthy and functioning at a higher level than before. Amen does not just simply rely on symptom surveys because he writes that there are different reasons behind some of the same mental
During the early 1970’s something called Computed Tomography (CT) Scanning was introduced into medicine. The CT scans were able to provide the first clear image of the brain and brain tumors. This was done by using X-Rays which provided doctors with images of a section or “slice” of the brain. In the following decades, CT Scanning becomes more and more refined and is now also being paired with other imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) which was invented by Damadian in 1977 (Filler, 2009).
Thesis: I chose this career when I found out that I would be providing one-on-one care to various people who can range from being healthy to critically ill. Currently, I do this as a certified nursing assistant. I assist the elderly who range from being able to take care of themselves with minor help to the ones who are in need of a lot of help such as the Alzheimer patients. I became interested when I found out that I would be trained on a high-tech machine which creates images from inside the human body. These images will be used
In recent years there have been many ground breaking discoveries in the scientific world. However I personally believe that there is a lot more which can be done in the field of neuroscience, this is due to the fact that we have a worldwide problem with many neurological diseases such as dementia, ADHD, and of course Alzheimer’s disease. My interest in neuroscience was discovered in year 9 when my biology teacher showed us a documentary about Alzheimer’s disease, from there on I was fascinated by the brain. The opportunity to combine my scientific understanding with the structure of the nervous system makes neuroscience an exciting prospect to me.
Diagnostic Imaging is the career that I am currently in school for and is very interesting to me as well as helpful to the patients. X-Ray has been around since its discovery in November of 1895. It allows people in the medical profession to see inside the human body without having to perform invasive surgery that could be harmful to patients without knowing what is wrong with
may branch from radiology, and explore other types of technologies being introduced to our area