Modality (medicine)
Modality is a generic term for the various medical devices used for imaging in medical diagnostics are used. In common usage, the generic term stands either for individual "medical devices used for imaging" or for the basic designs that result from the various device technologies (e.g. ultrasound, MRT, CT, ...). Occasionally, the term “modality” is also used as a synonym for “imaging procedure” (e.g. “contrast MRT” or “contrast CT” as a modality).
In medical informatics, modalities are often used in connection with the processing of patient and image data using radiology information systems (RIS), hospital information systems (HIS) or image archive systems (PACS). The DICOM standard, which is often used for this, distinguishes among others the following modalities:
- CR: "classic" X-ray in which the image is developed digitally (with image plates = computed radiography)
- DX: “classic” X-ray , in which the image development is fully digital (using a detector)
- CT: computed tomography
- MG: mammography
- MR: magnetic resonance imaging
- NM: nuclear medicine
- OT: other
- PT: positron emission tomography
- US: ultrasound
- XC: photography
- XA: Angiography (X-Ray Angiography)
- RF: fluoroscopy (radiofluoroscopy)
The request and the scheduling result in a precise, planned assignment between the patient, the modality, the image acquisition and the possibility of patient-related documentation and recording of the services provided with subsequent transfer to a long-term archive , an image storage and communication system (PACS) or that KIS . The motivation here is clearly on the part of the medical service provision. This can be mapped well through the use of standard diagnostic systems using HL7 .
Individual evidence
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