Positions
PA
viv/o
What is life?
A physician who specializes in the practice of diagnostic radiology.
What is a Radiologist?
An x-ray test to show an organ in depth.
What is tomography?
A substance that absorbs most of the x-ray it is exposed to.
What is radiopaque?
AP
What is anteroposterior view?
echo-
What is a repeated sound?
A person who aids physicians in administering diagnostic x-ray procedures.
What is a Radiographer?
X-ray imaging of the spinal cord.
What is myelography?
Radioactive substances used in the diagnosis of disease.
What is radionuclides?
Lateral
What is side view?
son/o
What is sound?
A person who aids a physician in performing ultrasound procedures.
What is a sonographer?
A magnetic field and radio waves are used to form cross sectional images of the body.
The transformation of an electrically neutral substance into an electrically charged particle.
What is ionization?
Oblique
What is a slanting perpendicular view?
is/o
What is same?
A person who attends to patients undergoing nuclear medicine procedures and operates devices.
What is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist?
What is Angiography?
Radioactive substance is given IV, cross sectional images of metabolism are created based on local concentration of the radioactive substance.
Lateral decubitus
What is lying down on one's side?
-opaque
What is obscure?
A physician that specializes in diagnostic radionuclide scanning procedures.
What is a Nuclear Medicine Physician?
High frequency sound waves are used to give information about the anatomy of an internal organ.
What is Ultrasonography?
Attaching a radionuclide to a chemical in the body and following it's path through the body.
What is tagging in a tracer study?