Benefits of Medical Imaging

Medical imaging is widely acclaimed as a hallmark of modern medicine. From physicians and patients to professional organizations and peer-reviewed journals, those who have evaluated and experienced medical imaging know its immense benefits, both personally and empirically.

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  Your Health

  Whether you are a young child with cancer or a grandmother who just wants to make sure she’s in good health, medical imaging helps to detect and diagnose disease at its earliest, most treatable stages and guides physicians and patients in determining the most appropriate and effective care. Together, imaging and radiation therapy innovations have turned countless patients into survivors.

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  Health Care Costs & Quality

  Our technologies are fundamental to standards of care. By catching disease early, reducing the need for invasive, in-patient procedures and facilitating shorter recovery times, medical imaging saves money and improves efficiency in the health care system. Medical imaging and radiation therapy help patients avoid or limit more invasive procedures, and return to their families, lives, and work more quickly. Indeed, it is because of these advanced technologies that the term “exploratory surgery” is all but obsolete.

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  Technology & Innovation

  Radiation therapy and medical imaging technologies have revolutionized health care delivery in America and around the world. Extending human vision into the very nature of disease, medical imaging is enabling a new and more powerful generation of diagnosis and intervention. Radiation therapy offers highly personalized and targeted means of killing cancer cells while leaving healthy ones untouched. Melding these advances with the power of digital and information technology is fostering greater efficiency, quality, and value in health care.

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  Jobs & the Economy

  Medical imaging is the source of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the U.S. economy. Whether it is a physician reviewing a scan, a technologist or technician performing a procedure or a factory worker assembling a machine, medical imaging provides high-tech, well-paying jobs that help fuel our economy.

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