Radiology/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• 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

• 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]

Other related topics

• 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]