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Imaging is a key diagnostic tool in modern healthcare - and today the importance of it was celebrated with a display at the KHMH:...

Dr. Carillo, Head of Radiology Department, Diagnostic and Inventory Radiologist
"This exhibit is to bring across the message of the importance of imaging in modern healthcare it's something that is being celebrated. This is the 8th year it's being celebrated and its actually the first time we're celebrating it here at the KHMH it's just to make people conscious about the importance of what we do."

"You can see we have the posters it actually tells us about when the X-ray was invented. Who invented it gives us the different timeframes when imaging started to develop like for example not as the X-ray was invented it was used in medicine it was used after a certain time then along with X-ray CT came along where you can actually take like a 3D image of the body and it was integrated when computer was developed. So and actually CT was one of the most important things that has been invented. The people that invented it won the nobel prize just like with X-ray right. So those are some of the things that we highlight here the different people that were involved in developing imaging throughout the time."

"Medical imaging integrates all types of imaging of the human body. It actually gives us the potential to look inside the human body without actually opening the person of course physical examination or traditional medicine is important but many times to actually confirm a diagnosis let's say I want to confirm that you have a tumor growing in your liver or in your breast you have to do a type of imaging and apart from that you can also characterize what type of tumor we're dealing with. That's just an example of what can be done but it applies across the board to many of the pathologies in medicine."

Cherisse Halsall:
"What about assumptions of danger from radiation when having to do imaging like this?"

Dr. Carillo
"When you talk about medical imaging not all the imaging modalities use radiation the ones that use radiation are X-rays the mammogram and the CT scans but of course we need to be responsible and we are actually trained to minimize the radiation that we use and the patient will get more benefit than actually what we are risking. So that's the whole idea about it so one of the major things that we train in is a way to minimize what we're using and still get a good result. Still get a good picture of inside the human body."