The branch of
medical science that uses
ionizing radiation to treat or
diagnose disease. This includes the use of any kind of
X-RAY or
CT scan,
Gamma Knife cancer therapy, and, on the
research end of things,
functional neuroimaging such as
PET and
SPECT.
Radiologists sometimes use
MRI (and
fMRI), too, although
MRI has more to do with
supercooled superconducting electromagnets than radiation.