医学是图象图形技术的一个重要而又广阔的应用领域，从而使基学图像成为图形技术的一个重要分支，本文向医学图象形领域的工作者，特别是工作于医院和医学领域的医生与技术人员介绍医学图像技术的基本内涵，包括医学成象技术的发展过程，医学图象技术的研究内容，以及医学图象技术的发展趋势，特别是与实际应用密切相关的医学图象技术的发展趋势，以利于提高医学图象技术的应用水平。

Medicine is an improtant and broad application area of Imaging and Graphics. Medical research and clinical practice are both utilizing and in some sense depending on the technology and equipments of imaging and graphics. This paper gave a brief survey of medical imaging area introduced the developing course of the technology, discussed the topics to which the special attention had been paid. It also discussed the trend of medical imaging, specially the trend of its clinical application.