Medical imaging

Creating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease.

• Bioluminescence imaging – a technique for studying laboratory animals using luminescent protein.
• Calcium imaging – determining the calcium status of a tissue using fluorescent light.
• Diffuse optical imaging – using near-infrared light to generate images of the body.
• Diffusion-weighted imaging – a type of MRI that uses water diffusion.
• Endoscopy – a procedure using an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body.
• Fluorescence lifetime imaging – using the decay rate of a fluorescent sample.
• Fluorescence image-guided surgery – used to detect fluorescently labelled structures during surgery.
• Gallium imaging – a nuclear medicine method for the detection of infections and cancers.
• Imaging agent – a chemical designed to allow clinicians to determine whether a mass is benign or malignant.
• Imaging studies – which includes many medical imaging techniques.
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – a non-invasive method to render images of living tissues.
• Microscopy – creating images of objects or features too small to be detectable by the naked human eye.
• Molecular imaging – used to study molecular pathways inside organisms.
• Non-contact thermography – is the field of thermography that derives diagnostic indications from infrared images of the human body.
• Nuclear medicine – uses administered radioactive substances to create images of internal organs and their function.
• Optical imaging – using light as an investigational tool for biological research and medical diagnosis.
• Optoacoustic imaging – using the photothermal effect, for the accuracy of spectroscopy with the depth resolution of ultrasound.
• Photoacoustic Imaging – a technique to detect vascular disease and cancer using non-ionizing laser pulses.
• Ultrasound imaging – using very high frequency sound to visualize muscles and internal organs.