angiocardiography (redirected from equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography)

angiocardiography /an·gio·car·di·og·ra·phy/ (-kahr?de-og´rah-fe) radiography of the heart and great vessels after introduction of an opaque contrast medium into a blood vessel or a cardiac chamber.

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equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography  a form of radionuclide angiocardiography in which images are taken at specific phases of the cardiac cycle over a series of several hundred cycles, with image recording set, or gated, by the occurrence of specific electrocardiographic waveforms.

first pass radionuclide angiocardiography  a form of radionuclide angiocardiography in which a rapid sequence of images is taken immediately after administration of a bolus of radioactive material to record only the initial transit through the central circulation.

radionuclide angiocardiography  a form in which the contrast material is a radionuclide, usually a compound of technetium 99m.

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an·gi·o·car·di·og·ra·phy (nj--kärd-gr-f)

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Examination of the heart and associated blood vessels using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

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angi·o·cardi·o·graphic (--grfk) adj.

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angiocardiography

radiography of the heart and great vessels after introduction of an opaque contrast medium into a blood vessel or one of the cardiac chambers.