Advances in medical imaging

This paper starts with giving the medical imaging modalities that are in practical use and lists several of the new medical imaging modalities under development. The remainder of the paper is concentrated on progress in MR imaging, ultrasound imaging and x-ray CT imaging. These modalities are major radiological imaging tools, which will have growing significance in the next decade. They are surpassed only by ordinary x-ray projection imaging, which is much more static in its development. Particular attention is given to applications where image processing and image analysis tasks are needed.