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| What is Radiology? Radiology refers to medical imaging techniques that employ advanced computers and other complex equipment that allow a radiologist (specially trained doctors) to see inside a patients body. Highly trained people called "technologist" carry out most of the imaging. When you have a radiological exam, the person conducting the exam is a licensed technologist. The images taken might be pieces of film or they might be computer pictures viewed on a monitor. The pictures are then analyzed "read" by a radiologist who will communicate the finding to your own doctor, by means of a typed report, who will then discuss them with the patient. What will the exam be like? Depending on the type of procedure you are having, you may be asked to stand or you may be lying down on an x-ray table. During the exam, the radiologist and/or technologist will ask the patient to hold their breath frequently and ask them not to move at times. |