OSHER 693 - Medical Imaging in the 21st Century More than Just an X-Ray

This course will present the history of x-ray discovery and medical use and the development of other technologies to image living tissue, and will summarize the role of medical imaging through the 20th century. It will discuss current medical imaging technologies specifically related to health screening examinations, cardiac and vascular disease, cancer detection and treatment, brain imaging, and the effects of current public health/lifestyle problems on imaging accuracy and efficiency. Lectures will be given by various subspecialists from The University of Utah department of radiology.