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...
opacified -Made to be opaque to X-ray irradiation, due
to the introduction of contrast material - as in a barium study (Upper
GI, Barium Enema), arteriogram, myelogram, etc