The Transparent Body

Medical Imaging: “Images that save life”

Each day, spectacular technical advances in medical radiology save human lives that would have had not survived in the past. Specialist doctors in medical imaging detect the pathology of an organ increasingly early, even before the appearance of symptoms, thanks to ultramodern technology, which is nonaggressive and nontraumatic. To be able to discover a disease even before the clinical sign is a lifelong ambition and dream, which currently becomes a reality thanks to new advances in imaging.

It permits:

• The strong chance of curing cancers by early screening. Ex: Breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, kidney cancer or lung cancer.
• The prevention of heart diseases.
• The prevention of complications and lesions from the carotids.
• The prevention of aneurysmal ruptures in the brain and all vascular malformation.
• The detection of osteoporosis to avoid the risk of fractures.
• The screening of predisposing factors of progressive diseases before they show or become serious.

Imaging devices that have allowed this decisive progress in prevention essentially are:

• Last generation multi-bar Scanner allows the detection of micro lesions (millimetric). It visualizes all the organs of your body, which are reconstructed in 3-D thanks to computers.
• MRI and its latest developments notably to study in close detail the anatomy of an organ in all the levels of space, but also the functioning and physiology of this organ.
• Mammography for screening breast cancer.
• Prosthetic, abdominal, pelvic, mammary and thyroid Sonograms.
• Arterial and venous Doppler sonogram.
• Exploration of the sexual function.
• Osteoarticular study and the assessment of osteodensitometry for the research of osteoporosis.
• Diagnostic for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, or neurological disease by functional MRI.

Today, very precise laboratory examinations and extraordinarily high-performance medical imaging permits each person to know the state of his or her health.