Introduction Flashcards

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Branch of medicine concerned with radiant energy and radioactive substances including x-rays, radioactive isotopes, ionizing radiation, and their application to preventing, diagnosing, and treatment of disease

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Radiology

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What are the 2 types of radiology?

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Interventional and diagnostic radiology

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The type of radiology that diagnoses and treats conditions non-surgically

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Interventional radiology

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The type of radiology that evaluates every system of the body

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Diagnostic radiology

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What are the modalities of imaging?

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Conventional radiography and advanced imaging

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Any image made by the century-old technology of x-ray production

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Conventional radiography

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Whole body or sectional imaging studies that require sophisticated computer post-processing

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Advanced imaging

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Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, diagnostic ultrasound, and nuclear medicine imaging

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The subdivisions of advanced imaging

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