1. Notions of medical imaging
1.1 Methods and resources
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Medical imaging encompasses the following techniques and resources:
acquisition, restitution and processing of images of the human body ;
interpretation and use of these images for therapeutic purposes.
The process of forming or generating images is based on physical principles such as X-ray absorption (radiography, mammography, CT or computerized tomography), the magnetic field (spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography), the propagation and reflection of ultrasound waves (ultrasonography, Doppler, elastography, photo-acoustics, thermo-acoustics, fUltrasound or functional brain ultrasound), radioactivity...
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