As medical students and future doctors, how in-depth will our knowledge need to be concerning the physics of how x-rays, CT scans, MRIs, etc work? Just wondering
I'm not sure about the physics but as long as we're still able to accurately pinpoint normal physiology from abnormal pathology on the images, we'll be fine.
I would say a rudimentary understanding is still good to have, however, so we can tell the patients which way the X-ray is going through them, "this won't hurt because..." etc.
I don't think you're going to have to be sitting around calculating wavelengths or anything, but the physics/mechanics behind each rests on a pretty simple set of principles. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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