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...
ACR - American College of Radiology, a national professional organization consisting of physicians who specialize in radiology.
angioplasty - the use of a small balloon on
the tip of a catheter inserted into a blood vessel to open up an area of
blockage inside the vessel.
arteriogram (Also called an angiogram.) - an x-ray of the arteries and veins to detect blockage or narrowing of the vessels.
arthrography - a contrast media is injected
into a joint capsule to visualize soft tissue pathologies involving
joints, often performed with fluoroscopy.