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Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Imaging > Radionuclide Imaging
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Techniques, Radioisotope > Radionuclide Imaging

Preferred term

Radionuclide Imaging  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Gamma Camera Imaging
  • Imaging, Gamma Camera
  • Radioisotope Scanning
  • Scanning, Radioisotope
  • Scintigraphy

Note

  • IM general only; coordinate NIM with anatomical term or disease term /diag image

Scope note

  • The production of an image obtained by cameras that detect the radioactive emissions of an injected radionuclide as it has distributed differentially throughout tissues in the body. The image obtained from a moving detector is called a scan, while the image obtained from a stationary camera device is called a scintiphotograph.

History note

  • 77; was RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING 1964-76; was RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING see under RADIOMETRY 1963

In other languages

  • isotooppitutkimus

    Finnish

  • gammakameratutkimukset
  • gammakameratutkimus
  • gammakuvaukset
  • gammakuvaus
  • isotooppikartoitukset
  • isotooppikartoitus
  • isotooppikuvaukset
  • isotooppikuvaus
  • isotooppitutkimukset
  • radioisotooppikartoitukset
  • radioisotooppikartoitus
  • Radionuklidavbildning

    Swedish

  • Gammakameraavbildning
  • Radioisotopundersökningar
  • Scintifotografi
  • Scintigrafi

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011877

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