Image Capture
The computer program that converts a digital signal into a usable image
What is an algorithm?
The part of an injector that contains the contrast
What is the Syringe?
Needles are measured according to this gauge scale
What is the Stubbs Gauge scale?
A drug used to control and relieve pain
What is an Analgesic?
The anatomic structure that prevents substances from passing to the central nervous system from the blood
What is the Blood Brain Barrier?
Radiography in which an image is simultaneousl captured in two different planes
What is Biplane radiography?
The primary purpose of the heating system on an injector is to reduce this.
What is Viscosity?
This can be used to reopen a stenosed vessel, occlude a vessel, or expand a stent.
What is a Balloon Catheter?
The type of sedation that produces a depressed level of consciousness where the patient is still able to respond to verbal commands and physical stimulation
What is Conscious Sedation?
The excretory pathway for the majority of organic iodide compounds
What is the urinary system?
The initials for this are DSA
What is Digital Subtraction Angiography?
MRI injectors must be made of this type of material
What is Nonferrous?
Guidewires for catheter exchange must be at least this length.
What is more than twice the length of the catheter?
A type of drug that functions by blocking the action of another substance
What is an antagonist?
The number of osmoles of solute in 1kg of sonvent
What is osmolality?
During Subtraction angiography, the exact copy of the scout with the densities reversed
What is a Diapositive Mask?
The primary factor to be considered when setting an automatic injector
What is Flow Rate?
The instrument used to prepare a vessel for a larger diameter catheter
What is a Dilator?
Swelling at or above an injection site indicates this
What is Extravasation/Infiltration?
The type of atoms in a contrast agent responsible for providing radiopacity
What is iodine?
The universal file format created for the archiving of medical images
What is DICOM?
The factory preset temperature of an injectors heating system
What is 37 degrees Celsius?
The outside diameter of a catheter with a Charriere French Gauge of 3
What is 1mm?
Insertion of a needle into the spinal canal is this type of injection
What is Intrathecal?
The ability of a contrast agent to mix evenly with blood to form a homogenous solution
What is miscibility?