Radiography
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- angiography
- aortography
- arthrography
- barium enema (lower GI series)
- barium swallow; modified barium swallow study (BSS, MBSS)
- bone age
- bone mineral density (BMD)
- bronchography
- cardiac contrast ventriculography
- cerebral contrast ventriculography
- chest X-ray
- cholecystography
- cisternography
- computerized tomography (CT)
- contrast enhancement
- cystogram
- cystourethrography
- discography
- doppler sonography/ultrasonography (DUS)
- enteroclysis
- fluoroscopic SNIFF test
- fluoroscopy
- hypotonic duodenography
- hysterosalphingography
- hysterosalpingography; uterosalpingography
- intravenous pyelography (IVP); intravenous urography (IUP)
- lymphadenography
- lymphography
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- mammography
- myelgram
- myelography
- orthopantogram; panorex
- percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
- positron emission tomography (PET, PET scan)
- radioisotope bone scan
- scintigraphy (radionuclide test)
- sialography
- splenoportography
- ultrasound (US, UTZ)
- upper GI series with small bowel follow-through
- urography
- venography
- ventilation-perfusion (VQ) scan
- ventriculography
- video esophagography
- X-ray of abdomen, including kidneys, ureters & bowel (KUB)
- xeroradiography
Introduction
- Originally, examination of any part of the body for diagnostic purposes using X-rays with the results recorded on a photographic film. It is used more broadly to include imaging techniques using electromagnetic radiation in general & other forms of energy including sound waves ( ultrasonography) & nuclear decay particles in general ( positrons in PET).
- Certain substances* will be radiopaque on X-rays: [3]
- * A negative radiograph does not rule out these programs.
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References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
- Diagnostic Imaging: NIH Institute and Center Resources [1]
- Daubert GP, Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis
