scintillogram Med.
(sɪnˈtɪləʊgræm)
[f. scintillation + -o + -gram.]
A scintigram.
| 1958 Proc. 2nd U.N. Internat. Conf. Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy XXVI. 245/1 Indefiniteness can be eliminated by making scintillograms in three mutually perpendicular planes. 1966 G. M. Berlyne Course in Renal Dis. xvii. 348 The scintillogram using 203Hg labelled mercurial diuretics is a useful way of diagnosing small infarcted areas of the kidney. |
Hence scinˈtillograph, a scintigraph; scintilloˈgraphic a., scintiˈllography.
| 1958 Proc. 2nd U.N. Internat. Conf. Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy XXVI. 243/1 Scintillography is principally used to examine objects of which the shapes and location are approximately known. Ibid. 245/2 A systematic search for thyroid tissue precedes all scintillographic examination. Ibid. 248/1 The scintillograph reveals only lesions with a diameter greater than 2 or 3 centimetres, unless they are confluent. 1965 Biol. Abstr. XLVI. 4558/1 (heading) Scintillographic study of the spleen. 1975 Nature 2 Oct. 426/1 The possibility that the phenomenon was due to physical migration of isotope was investigated by serial gamma camera scintillography of two specially prepared T tubes. |