Radiology Lexicon

Last uploaded: November 19, 2024
Preferred Name

artifact
Synonyms
Definitions

Signals that do not faithfully reproduce actual anatomic structures because of distortion or of addition or deletion of information”. Arena et al. Radiographics 1995: A structure or feature only visible as a result of error or limitation of imaging. From the Latin: “artis” = “art” and “facere” = “to make”. Hence, literally, “works of art”.

ID

http://www.radlex.org/RID/RID11296

Definition

Signals that do not faithfully reproduce actual anatomic structures because of distortion or of addition or deletion of information”. Arena et al. Radiographics 1995: A structure or feature only visible as a result of error or limitation of imaging. From the Latin: “artis” = “art” and “facere” = “to make”. Hence, literally, “works of art”.

label

RID11296

Preferred_name

artifact

prefixIRI

RID1:RID11296

prefLabel

artifact

UMLS_ID

C0085089

subClassOf

http://www.radlex.org/RID/RID11273

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