Hi, I am a radiologist, I use medical imaging at work.
Really? That's pretty cool! What types of stuff do you scan?
I am a Diagnostic Radiologist, a specially trained doctor, so I scan ER patients.
Ah okay. The work hours must be crazy. I have a friend who is a nurse and she gets very tired sometimes.
Yes I agree, its also stressful. I have advanced training, to interpret basic images which adds to the stress.
What do the machines use? Is it x rays or sound waves or something like that?
i specialize in computed tomography  (CT) of the brain. It uses X-rays
Cool, I remember getting x rays a few times. You have to wear a lead suit to protect areas of the body not getting scanned right?
images taken around a single axis of rotation. Medical imaging is the most common application of X-ray CT. Its cross-sectional images are used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in various medical disciplines. The rest of this article discusses medical-imaging X-ray CT; industrial applications of X-ray CT are discussed at "industrial computed tomography scanning".
The term "computed tomography" (CT) is often used to refer to X-ray CT, because it is the most commonly known form.
of people work those sort of hours but I think we really feel it because most of us are young and fairly inexperienced. I don't have a life, really. What you see on the screen is what I do. But I am very grateful because it is good experience. It's like an apprenticeship but we do it in front of 20 million people so all our mistakes are up for the world to see."
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