Radiological Detection

Radiological  Detection

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Introduction

        Radiography today plays an integral role in modern medicine. Radiographers deliver vital services to a huge number of people globally ranging from the young to the elderly. Diagnostic radiographers use sophisticated equipments, and incorporate various imaging techniques to produce top-class images of a disease or injury. These images are examined by radiographers and a report given by them on the correct treatment. Therapeutic radiographers, on the other hand, play a pivotal role in patient’s stages of radiotherapy. They guide the patient through the crucial stages of radiography such as pre-diagnosis stage, patient consent, pre-treatment preparation and treatment delivery (Houston, 2003). Research suggests that radiological detection can aid in predicting the behavior of committing suicide.

        Suicide is one of the major public health issues that medical practitioners handle almost every day. In America alone, an estimated 30000 individuals die by committing suicide (Pandey, 2013). Mental disease or illness is one contributing factor to this behavior of committing suicide.  Research suggests that approximately 90% of the reported suicides are due to a psychiatric disorder. Research further indicates that approximately 60% of suicide cases associated with a mental disorder occur in mood disorder patient’s. These results further imply that not all people with a mood disorder or mental illness commit suicide.

        According to a research by Ghanshyam Pandey, suicidal behaviors result to an anomaly in the serotonergic system (2013). This is supported by the finding that people with suicidal behaviors have impulsive and aggressive traits which are associated to serotonergic dysfunction. In my opinion, performing a skull radiography can reveal the anomalies in the serotonergic system thus predicting suicide behavior. Therefore, as a radiographer I am in support of Ghanshyam findings and concur with the argument that radiological detections can help in the understanding of death and bereavement. Though there is limited research on this subject, the available research findings provide a significant insight on the neuro-biology of committing suicide.

        According to a research by Harry Chugani, neuro-imaging equipments can help one identify an epileptic tuber from a multitude of other tubers in the patient’s brain (2005). Clearly this indicates the level and capability of the sophisticated technologies used in the radiography field. If one can perform skull radiography and distinguish between epileptic tubers, I strongly believe that the same can also be done to predict suicide behaviors. As discussed earlier, one needs to examine any abnormalities in the serotonergic system and derive a conclusion regarding suicide behavior.