--- title: Medical Imaging description: Medical imaging covers the technologies used to create visual representations of the body's interior for clinical analysis. Learners will understand the physical principles and clinical applications of X-rays, MRI, CT scans, and ultrasound. category: health-medicine subcategory: medical-technology difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/medical-imaging --- # Medical Imaging Medical imaging covers the technologies used to create visual representations of the body's interior for clinical analysis. Learners will understand the physical principles and clinical applications of X-rays, MRI, CT scans, and ultrasound. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 1 Courses • 5 Websites ## Websites ### 1. RSNA Case Collection Peer-reviewed radiology teaching cases published by the Radiological Society of North America, searchable by subspecialty and modality, each presenting history, images, findings and final diagnosis. Working through them trains pattern recognition and structured interpretation of imaging studies. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cases.rsna.org/ **Tags:** radiology, teaching-cases, diagnostic-imaging, case-studies ### 2. LearningRadiology.com Companion site to William Herring's Learning Radiology textbook, with daily unknown cases, an archive of teaching files, and lecture material aimed at medical students. Regular use builds recognition of common findings on plain films, CT and ultrasound. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.learningradiology.com/ **Tags:** radiology, plain-film, case-studies, medical-students ### 3. Radiopaedia Free, collaboratively edited radiology reference with thousands of peer-reviewed articles and annotated imaging cases across CT, MRI, ultrasound, and X-ray. Learners can look up conditions, study their typical imaging appearances, and practise interpreting real diagnostic cases. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://radiopaedia.org/ **Tags:** radiology, medical-imaging, diagnostic-imaging, case-studies, anatomy ### 4. Radiopaedia Free, collaboratively written radiology reference with encyclopedia articles and a large library of real patient cases across X-ray, CT, MRI and ultrasound, including extensive neuroradiology. Readers learn imaging anatomy, characteristic findings of disease and systematic image interpretation. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://radiopaedia.org/?lang=us **Tags:** radiology, radiology-cases, neuroradiology, imaging-anatomy, image-interpretation ### 5. NITRC: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory An NIH-funded registry of neuroimaging software, datasets, and cloud computing resources, with documentation, forums, and a public data repository. Researchers use it to find and compare tools for MRI, PET, and EEG analysis and to obtain shared imaging datasets. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nitrc.org **Tags:** neuroimaging, fmri-analysis, neuroinformatics, open-datasets ## Books ### 1. Fundamentals of Medical Imaging **Author:** Paul Suetens Covers the physics and mathematics behind radiography, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine and ultrasound, plus image reconstruction and analysis. Readers finish able to explain how each modality forms an image and where its artefacts and limitations come from. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521803624?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, medical-technology ### 2. Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging **Author:** William E. Erkonen, Wilbur L. Smith An introduction to reading images for medical students and non-radiologists, organised by organ system with over 850 labelled illustrations. After it you can recognise normal anatomy on each modality and follow a basic radiologic workup. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0781751985?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, medical-technology ### 3. Medical Imaging Signals and Systems **Author:** Jerry L. Prince, Jonathan M. Links An engineering treatment of radiography, CT, nuclear imaging, ultrasound and MRI using linear systems theory, Fourier analysis and reconstruction mathematics. Working the problems builds the ability to model imaging systems quantitatively and analyse resolution, noise and contrast. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0130653535?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, medical-technology ## Courses ### 1. Advanced Medical Imaging

Understand the basic concepts of using and interpreting cardiac computed tomography (CT) and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) through didactic le **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.edx.org/certificates/professional-certificate/hkux-advanced-cardiac-imaging **Tags:** courses, health-medicine, medical-technology --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/medical-imaging