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Considering medical imaging in the virtual dimension where it originates questions it from an ethical point of view. The consequences of the image, at the core of these technical devices, are frequently obscured by the medical investigation as such. The power of the image needs to be considered, but also the focus of the various perspectives, so that ethical questions can emerge in a space of encounter. The gaze on the technical procedures that reconstruct the body through images is related to the gaze on the subject of the body, bared in this techno-scientific reconstruction. Phantasies of transparency and specular disorders are present in this clinical domain, where gazes never converge. Technical medical progress should not lead to a regression on other therapeutic levels. The use of a certain technology implies a question about the comprehensiveness of its application; thinking about its context and avoiding the repression that it causes could lead to other therapeutic methods, where pluralism and the multiplicity of gazes could unfold. A shared gaze would then be the occasion for a truly ethical encounter.