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...
fluoroscopy - a study of moving body structures,
similar to an x-ray "movie." A continuous x-ray beam is passed through
the body part being examined, and is transmitted to a TV-like monitor so
that the body part and its motion can be seen in detail.