What is the medical term meaning X-ray imaging of heart and vessels?

Answer 1

Angiography is an x-ray imaging technique usually used to image hearts and vessels. New imaging techniques are also available for the same purpose, for example, CT angiography and MR angiography.

Answer 2

Cholangiography is the medical term meaning X-ray of bile vessels. There are at least two kinds of cholangiography: percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

Answer 3

An arteriogram is an imaging study of an arterly. An angiogram is an imaging study of a vessel.

An x-ray image of an artery is an arteriogram. The arteriography procedure may be direct, by arterial puncture and arterial contrast injection and fluoroscopic or digital subtraction, or indirect, by venous contrast injection followed by CT or MR scanning of the pertinent anatomy.