Glossary

A surgical procedure usually performed after teeth are extracted to recontour the jawbone and increase the ridge size in preparation ...

A drug that dissolves blood clots. Alteplase is used to treat heart attack, stroke, or pulmonary embolism (clot in the ...

Using an x-ray source which projects through the patient onto a fluorescent screen or image intensifier. Image-intensified fluoroscopy has replaced ...

Techniques in which NMR signals are gathered from the whole object volume to be imaged at once. Many sequential plane ...

The use of high-frequency sound (several MHz or more) to image internal structures by the differing reflection signals produced when ...

Combinations of metals, usually tin, copper, and aluminum, used to modify the quality of orthovoltage x-ray beams to improve the ...

The depth to which heating to therapeutic temperatures is likely to extend.  

Certain materials, when subjected to ionizing radiation, will undergo an internal alteration in their crystal structure which will store a ...

A temperature-sensitive semiconductor used for thermometry.  

The area over which therapeutic heating is likely to be produced.