[en] Medical imagery is a field where developments in physics, engineering and instrumentation can be applied directly to human diagnosis and treatment. The need to detect ever-smaller anomalies and to measure increasingly slight variations in metabolic parameters has led to a high degree of complexity in radiographic, echographic and nuclear medicine instrumentation. The wide-spread use of digital circuits and more generally the development of data processing systems and mathematical algorithms has allowed the introduction of new techniques such as emission and transmission tomography, digitalised radiography, synchronised gamma cardiology and nuclear magnetic resonance. For reasons of brevity this article is confined to the presentation of some concepts and results in the field of computer-assisted tomography and a discussion on the main parameters of imagery systems using position detectors