本刊可以直接使用的英文缩略语
 
放射学
计算机体层摄影术(computed tomography, CT)
多层螺旋CT(multiple-slice CT, MSCT)
高分辨率CT(high resolution CT, HRCT)
容积CT(volumetric computed tomography, VCT)
CT血管造影(computed tomographic angiography, CTA)
CT静脉造影(CT venography, CTV)
磁共振成像(magnetic resonance imaging, MRI)
功能磁共振成像(functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI)
扩散(弥散)加权成像(diffusion weighted imaging, DWI)
磁敏感加权成像(susceptibility-weighted imaging, SWI)
扩散(弥散)张量成像(diffusion tensor imaging, DTI)
灌注加权成像(perfusion weighted imaging, PWI)
磁共振血管造影(magnetic resonance angiography, MRA)
磁共振波谱(magnetic resonance spectroscopy, MRS)
氢质子磁共振波谱(proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy, 1H-MRS)
表观扩散(弥散)常数(apparent diffusion coefficient, ADC)
数字减影血管造影(digtal subtraction angiography, DSA)
经导管动脉化疗栓塞术(trans-arterial chemoembolization, TACE)
冠状动脉血管造影术(coronary angiography, CAG)
经颈静脉肝内门-体分流术(transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt, TIPS)
最大密度投影(maximum intensity projection, MIP)
容积再现技术(volume rendering technique, VRT)
表面遮盖显示(surface shaded displace, SSD)
最小密度投影(minimum intensity projection, MinIP)
多平面重建(multiplannar reconstruction, MPR)
容积再现(volume rendering, VR)
容积重建(volume reconstruction, VR)
曲面重建(curved multiplannar reformation, CMPR)
自旋回波(spin echo, SE)
快速自旋回波(fast spin echo, FSE)或者(turbo spin echo, TSE)
快速场回波(fast field echo, FFE)
平面回波成像(echo planar imaging, EPI)
梯度回波(gradient echo, GRE)
信噪比(signal noise ratio, SNR)
对比噪声比(contrast noise ratio, CNR)
血氧水平依赖(blood oxygenation level dependent, BOLD)
视野(field of view, FOV)
时间飞跃法(time of flight, TOF)
激励次数(number of excitation, NEX)
各向异性分数(fractional anisotropy, FA)
钆喷替酸葡甲胺(Gd-DTPA)
 
超声学
经胸超声心动图(transthoracic echocardiography, TTE)
经食管超声心动图(transesophageal echocardiography, TEE)
彩色多普勒血流显像(color Doppler flow imaging, CDFI)
彩色多普勒能量图(color Doppler energy, CDE)
组织速度成像(tissue velocity imaging, TVI)
应变率成像(strain rate imaging, SRI)
速度向量成像(velocity vector imaging, VVI)
脉冲多普勒(pulsed wave Doppler, PWD)
多普勒组织成像(Doppler tissue imaging, DTI)
彩色多普勒成像(color Doppler imaging, CDI)
超声造影(contrast enhanced ultrasound, CEUS)
 
 
 
 
核医学
正电子发射型计算机断层扫描(positron emission computed tomography, PET)
单光子发射型计算机断层扫描(single photon emission computed tomography, SPECT)
发射型计算机断层扫描(emission computed tomography, ECT)
氟脱氧葡萄糖(fluorodeoxyglucose, FDG)
亚甲基二磷酸盐 (MDP) 
 
 
 
 
其他
心电图(electrocardiogram, ECG)
仿真内镜(virtual endoscope, VE)
微血管密度(microvessel density, MVD)
受试者工作特性(receiver operating characteristic, ROC)
医学数字成像和传输(digital imaging and communications in medicine, DICOM)
图像存储与传输系统(picture archiving and communications system, PACS)
感兴趣区(region of interest, ROI)
世界卫生组织(World Health Organization, WHO)