On April 6th, 2009 Governor Bill Richardson signed into law HB 498 making New Mexico the first state to require sonographers (and MRI technologists) to be licensed. New Mexico's Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act  requires licensure for all non-physician health providers who perform sonography exams in New Mexico. To ...

There is little doubt that the glamourous diagnostic imaging modalities in the United States have been, for many years, CT and MRI. Tremendous strides have taken place in both of those technologies, particularly in terms of the speed of data acquisition, tissue characterization capabilities and image detail resolution. These advances combined with ...