This article highlights a List Of Best Medical Imaging Centres In Kenya. Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). The list focuses on accredited health institutions that offer an extensive range of medical imaging services such as MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan, PET scan, angiography, mammography and many more. Medical imaging seeks to reveal internal structures hidden by the skin and bones, as well as to diagnose and treat disease. Medical imaging also establishes a database of normal anatomy and physiology to make it possible to identify abnormalities. Although imaging of removed organs and tissues can be performed for medical reasons, such procedures are usually considered part of pathology instead of medical imaging.
Measurement and recording techniques that are not primarily designed to produce images, such as electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electrocardiography (ECG), and others, represent other technologies that produce data susceptible to representation as a parameter graph versus time or maps that contain data about the measurement locations. In a limited comparison, these technologies can be considered forms of medical imaging in another discipline of medical instrumentation.
As of 2010, 5 billion medical imaging studies had been conducted worldwide. Radiation exposure from medical imaging in 2006 made up about 50% of total ionizing radiation exposure in the United States. Medical imaging equipment is manufactured using technology from the semiconductor industry, including CMOS integrated circuit chips, power semiconductor devices, sensors such as image sensors (particularly CMOS sensors) and biosensors, and processors such as microcontrollers, microprocessors, digital signal processors, media processors and system-on-chip devices. As of 2015, annual shipments of medical imaging chips amount to 46 million units and $1.1 billion.
Medical imaging is often perceived to designate the set of techniques that noninvasively produce images of the internal aspect of the body. In this restricted sense, medical imaging can be seen as the solution of mathematical inverse problems. This means that cause (the properties of living tissue) is inferred from effect (the observed signal). In the case of medical ultrasound, the probe consists of ultrasonic pressure waves and echoes that go inside the tissue to show the internal structure. In the case of projectional radiography, the probe uses X-ray radiation, which is absorbed at different rates by different tissue types such as bone, muscle, and fat.
The term “noninvasive” is used to denote a procedure where no instrument is introduced into a patient’s body, which is the case for most imaging techniques used.
Here is a list of the best medical imaging centres in Kenya
Avenue Hospital Radiology Diagnostic Imaging Centre
Address: First Parklands Ave, Nairobi
Phone: 0711 060000
Appointments: avenuehealthcare.com
VitalRay Health Solutions
Located in: Mayfair Centre
Address: Ralph Bunche Rd, Nairobi
Phone: 020 2731650
West Kenya Diagnostic and Imaging Centre Kisumu
Located in: Mega City Mall
Address: Mega City Mall, Kisumu
Phone: 0738 167576
tumaini medical labs and scan ultrasound
Address: moi avenue tumaini house, third floor, Nairobi
Phone: 0733 770099
Medi-Gate Diagnostic Centre
Address: Jubilee Exchange House, Mama Ngina St, Nairobi
Phone: 0796 577605
Precise Diagnostic Imaging Ltd
Address: Mawensi Rd, Nairobi
Phone: 020 7856359
Clintec 3D/4D Ultrasound and xrays
Address: Tom Mboya, Nairobi
Phone: 0708 300588
Scan For Life Imaging And Diagnostic Centre
Address: Upperhill, Mara Rd, Nairobi City
Phone: 020 2712076
Consolata Hospital Radiology Diagnostic Centre
Address: 25 – 10100 road
Phone: 0798 636177
Integrated Molecular Imaging Centre (IMIC)
Address: Integrated Molecular Imaging Centre (IMIC Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital Northern Bypass Road
Phone: 0111 138106
Appointments: kutrrh.go.ke
German Medical Center
Located in: KMA Centre
Address: KMA Centre, Mara Rd, Nairobi
Phone: 0727 588770
ZAKMED IMAGING CENTRE
Address: DUNE PLAZA, Nairobi
Phone: 0702 404731