The Radiologist as an Anatomy Student.

Richard B. Gunderman and Harprit Bedi 2015 Anatomy is a foundational discipline for the study of medicine, but it lies at the very core of radiology. Essentially, every image a radiologist inspects depicts anatomy, and one of the very first determinations to be made is whether the anatomy in question is normal or abnormal: is the bone fractured, the bile duct dilated, or the subarachnoid space filled with blood? Along with surgery, radiology is one of the most anatomy-intensive fields in medicine. Without a thorough understanding of the structure of the human organism, it is impossible to do anything.