Radiology#Related Articles

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	A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Radiology.

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Parent topics[edit]

• Imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of objects, situations or processes, even when the methods used to generate the image are outside the sensitivity of the human eye. ^[e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Medical imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of clinically relevant objects. ^[e]

Subtopics[edit]

• Angiography [r]: Radiographic visualization of the internal anatomy of the heart and blood vessels after the intravascular introduction of radiopaque contrast medium. ^[e]
• Neuroimaging [r]: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. ^[e]
• Nuclear medicine [r]: That medical specialty, or subspecialty, concerned with diagnosis and treatment using radioisotopes administered to the patient ^[e]
• Computed tomography [r]: An imaging technique that computes three-dimensional representations of an object from a series of two-dimensional x-ray images. ^[e]
• Electroencephalography [r]: A technique that records brain electrical activity non-invasively. ^[e]
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging [r]: A neuroimaging technique used to monitor task-specific blood oxygenation, primarily in the brain. ^[e]
• Positron emission tomography [r]: A medical imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. ^[e]
• Magnetic resonance imaging [r]: The use of magnetic fields and electromagnetic radiation to visualize internal structures of non-magnetic objects non-destructively. ^[e]

Other related topics[edit]

• Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation ^[e]
• Digital imaging and communications in medicine [r]: A set of technical specifications for putting medical information consisting of images, of all types, into digital form, such that they can be stored in a computer system or transmitted to a remote computer ^[e]
• Medical physics [r]: The study of medical problems with methods borrowed or derived from physics ^[e]
• Biomedical engineering [r]: The application of engineering principles to the study and manipulation of biological systems and to the support of health care. ^[e]
• Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. ^[e]
• X-ray [r]: An ionizing type of electromagnetic radiation whose absorption or diffraction often used for structural investigations of matter. ^[e]