Radiology Essay

Introduction

Digital technology has helped making many major achievements during the 20th and 21st centuries. But while digital technology has been accredited for major development in many industries, in some others it has been noted to only optimize the field in limited ways. One such field that has only benefited in a limited way from digital technology advances has been the Radiology industry which has experienced developments but to a limited proportion of the users (Lanca & Silva, 2012). The medical use of digital radiology imaging of the human’s internal structure and appearance for medical investigation is one such area that has experienced serious limitations despite of developments in the field. This has resulted in the radiology technology

This is because radiology is used to create x-ray images of patients and there are many factors linked to the x-rays which require to be taken in to close consideration to ensure high quality images are taken without exposing the patients to lethal doses of radiation. Due to medical facilities requiring adhering to the ALARA principle which takes the patients radiation dose exposure in to consideration while developing all healthcare radiology equipment (Lewins, 1991). This is due to the radiology department only being able to expose the patients to a limited amount of radiation doses without burning them which limited the progress experienced in the medical radiology

Radiology continues to be used in a wide verity of industries where the equipment is used to monitor security as well as measure quality but in the medical field, radiology has remains limited due to the limitation of radiation that can be used on people safely. To compensate, researchers and scientist and developers have moved their attention from increasing the radiation dosage to actually using the acceptable dosses to capture clearer images which can also be produced faster. In addition to image quality, and speed the digital radiology equipment can also capture different X-Ray resolutions in a single exposure thus reducing the cost and time required to secure different