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...
radiologist - a physician specializing in the medical field of radiology.
radiopharmaceutical (Also called a tracer or radionuclide.) - basic radioactively-tagged compound necessary to produce a nuclear medicine image.