A career in radiology has rapidly advanced in recent years. Technological innovations and the widespread availability of sophisticated imaging techniques have created significant change in the field of radiology
Radiology is both a diagnostic specialty and an interventional specialty, with direct links to almost every other department in a hospital. Diagnostic radiologists use a variety of imaging techniques to answer the clinical question posed by a patient’s condition. Diagnostic techniques are vast and include plain radiographs, ultrasound, and computed tomography (CT) to sophisticated techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography coupled with CT or MRI (PET-CT and PET-MRI).
At the other end of the spectrum, interventional radiologists have a direct role in managing patients—from performing urgent minimally invasive procedures and stopping life threatening haemorrhages to undertaking day case procedures such as oesophageal stenting or angioplasty. Radiologists do both diagnostic and interventional work.
Finally, radiologists have a key role in discussing clinical management, selecting the best imaging technique to enable diagnosis and minimising radiation exposure. Clinicians increasingly turn to radiologists for advice, and radiologists are an integral part of the patient management pathway.
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