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Chapter 21- Radiology and Nuclear
Medicine Questions and Answers
Graded A+

radiologist - answer physician with specialized training in obtaining and interpreting
medical images
radiologist - answer physician with specialized training in obtaining and interpreting
medical images

Radiographers, radiologic techs/assistants - answer provide radiologists with images
they need to diagnose and treat medical conditions

sonographers - answer operate ultrasound imaging devices to produce diagnostic
images

nuclear medicine specialists - answer radiologists who have specialized training in
the use of radiopharmaceuticals for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment and research

nuclear medicine technologist - answer administer radiopharmaceuticals to patients
and operate cameras to detect and map radioactive drug in the patients body to create
diagnostic images

radiotherapists - answer physicians who specialize in the treatment of disease using
x-rays and radioactive materials

craniocaudal - answer a view of a structure from head to foot

crani/o
caud
al - answer -skull
-tail
-pertaining to

electromagnetic - answer pertaining to energy propagated through matter and space

electr/o
magnet
ic - answer -electricity
-magnet
-pertaining to

, ion - answer an atom or group of atoms having gained or lost one or more electrons

ion (Greek) - answer going

ionazation - answer the process of causing an atom or group of atoms to gain or lose
electrons

radioactive - answer Spontaneously emits radiation; alpha, beta, or gamma

radiology - answer study of x-rays; medical imagin

radiolucent - answer penetrable by x-rays or other forms of radiation

radi/o
lucent - answer -radiation
-open

radiopaque - answer impenetrable by x-rays or other forms of radiation

radio
paque - answer -radiation
-shady

radiopharmaceutical - answer relating to a product produced by the drug industry
that is radioactive

radiotherapist - answer specialist in the use of radiation in the treatment of patients

craniocaudal (abrv) - answer CC

Full field digital mammography - answer mammography that is faster and displays
images on a computer screen - FFDM

mediolateral - answer pertaining to the middle and side of a structure - MLO

velocity, wavelength, invisibility, ionization - answer characteristics of an x-ray

angioplasty - answer surgical repair of a blood vessel

angio
plasty - answer -blood vessel
-surgical repair

anteroposterior - answer direction the x-ray beam passes through a patient;
pertaining to the front and to the back

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