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...
tomography - from the Greek words "to cut or section"
(tomos) and "to write" (graphein), in nuclear medicine, it is a method
of separating interference from the area of interest by imaging a cut
section of the object.