These are some guidelines on how to prepare for the test: You are required to fast from food and fluid for 4 hours prior to…

A barium meal is a type of X-ray test that allows your doctor to examine your esophagus (the pipe that goes from your mouth to your…

Biliary drainage is the insertion of a tube into the bile duct. This is most commonly carried out when the bile ducts are blocked. The bile…

Cystography is a diagnostic procedure that uses X-rays to examine the urinary bladder. Still X-ray pictures or fluoroscopy (a study of moving body structures—similar to…

A Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) is a procedure where fine tissue samples are taken for analysis from an area in the body using a fine…

Fluoroscopy is a procedure performed by a radiologist to view tissues and organs in motion. During the procedure, a continuous X-ray beam is emitted through…

Interventional radiology (IR or VIR for Vascular and Interventional Radiology, also referred to as Surgical Radiology) is a medical sub-specialty of radiology that uses minimally…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a test that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures inside the body.

An MCUG is an X-ray examination of the bladder, urethra, and ureters. These structures are difficult to see on X-rays, so a contrast dye material…

The urine from a normal kidney drains through a narrow, muscular tube, the urethra, into the bladder. When that tube becomes blocked, for example by…

A percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (PTCA) is an x-ray of the bile ducts. These are the tubes that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder…

Pleural aspiration is a procedure to remove fluid from the space between the lungs and the chest wall. This is called the pleural space or cavity. Normally, the pleural space is filled with a small amount of fluid …

A sialogram is an X-ray test using contrast (x-ray dye) to look in detail at the larger salivary glands (the parotid or submandibular). These glands…

This is a procedure to examine the small bowel, which is part of the intestine that joins the stomach to the large bowel (colon). In order to see the small bowel on the X-Ray screen we coat it with a fluid called barium…

A urethrogram is an X-ray examination of the bladder and urethra. These structures are difficult to see on X-rays, so a contrast material is used to highlight these organs. The contrast material is introduced into the bladder…

An X-ray machine produces a controlled beam of radiation, which is used to create an image of the inside of your body. This beam is…

Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) is a treatment that uses imaging guidance to place a needle electrode through the skin into a liver tumor. High-frequency electrical currents are passed…