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A patient's guide to medical imaging
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- Creator
- Ronald L. Eisenberg, Alexander R. Margulis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199729913, 0199729913
- OCLC
- ocn631746633
- Includes index.
- 1. Introduction : Roentgen and his discovery ; Overview of the radiologic imaging process ; Radiology personnel ; Radiation exposure ; Cost of imaging procedures ; Health care reform -- 2. Conventional radiology : Plain radiographs ; Portable radiographs ; Fluoroscopy ; Barium swallow ; Upper GI series ; Small bowel series ; Barium enema -- 3. Ultrasound : Obstetrical (fetal) ultrasound ; Doppler ultrasound ; Echocardiography -- 4. Computer tomography : Chest CT ; Abdominal CT ; Head CT ; Spine CT ; Whole-body CT screening ; Virtual colonoscopy -- 5. Magnetic resonance imaging : MR arthrography -- 6. Breast imaging : Mammography ; Breast ultrasound ; Breast MRI ; Breast biopsy -- 7. Nuclear medicine : Bone scan ; Lung scan ; Thyroid scan and the radioactive iodine uptake test ; Cardiac scan ; Positron emission tomography (PET) -- 8. Angiography : Catheter angiography ; CT angiography (CTA) ; CT coronary arteriography ; CT pulmonary arteriography ; Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) -- 9. Interventional radiology : Vascular procedures ; Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) ; Embolization ; Tumor embolization ; Chemoembolization ; Uterine artery embolization ; Thrombolysis ; Venous access procedures ; Inferior vena cava placement ; Nonvascular procedures ; Needle aspiration biopsy ; Fluid aspiration and drainage ; Tube placement ; Tumor ablation (radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation, laser ablation, or microwave ablation) ; Vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty ; Informed consent -- 10. Pediatric radiology -- 11. Miscellaneous studies : Bone density (DEXA) scan ; Hysterosalpingography
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- Diagnostic imaging -- Popular works.
- Medical radiology -- Popular works.
- Diagnostic Imaging -- popular works.
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- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- popular works.
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- Radiography -- popular works.
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