Medical Imaging Research Paper

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At the beginning of this past summer, I took a job working as what is known as a medical scribe. In short, a scribe is a non-medically trained individual who records and compiles information that hospital physicians use to diagnose patients. In this short amount of time, the importance of medical imaging has become even more abundantly clear then it was before I took this job. In particular, the most common methods of medical imaging boil down to X-Ray, Ultrasound, CT scans (computerized tomography), and MRI scans (magnetic resonance imaging). Of these four, MRI is probably the most enigmatic. It provides one of the most detailed images of inside the human body without using any harmful radiation.
MRI can be used to form a diagnosis for

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