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...
PACS - Picture Archiving and Communication System, a computer system that electronically manages images.
positron emission tomography (PET) - in nuclear medicine, a procedure that measures the metabolic activity of cells.