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Scintillation vs Scintigram - What's the difference?

scintillation | scintigram |

As nouns the difference between scintillation and scintigram

is that scintillation is a flash of light; a spark while scintigram is (medicine) an image of part of the body, obtained by measuring (by means of scintillation or a similar method) the radiation emitted by a radioactive tracer.

scintillation

English

Noun

(wikipedia scintillation) (en noun)
  • A flash of light; a spark
  • (astronomy) The twinkling of a star caused by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere
  • (physics) The flash of light produced by a phosphor when it absorbs ionizing radiation

    • Derived terms

    * liquid scintillation * scintillation camera * scintillation counter * scintillation detector * scintillation spectrometer

    scintigram

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) An image of part of the body, obtained by measuring (by means of scintillation or a similar method) the radiation emitted by a radioactive tracer.