Whether your looking into Radiology / Radiography as a career or are
just beginning your training all the terms, lingo and acronyms that get
thrown around can be confusing. Were starting a segment where we will
give you a glossary of Radiology / Radiography terms, one letter each
day so you can absorb this in bite size chunks. Here we go...
gamma camera - a device used in nuclear medicine to scan patients who have been injected with small amounts of radioactive materials.
gastrostomy tubes - a gastrostomy tube (feeding tube) is inserted into the stomach if the patient is unable to take food by mouth.
Gy - Gray, or rad, radiation absorbed dose. 1 joule (J) of energy absorbed in each kilogram of material.