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Enum: ImagingModalityEnum

In-vivo medical imaging modality by which an ImagingFinding is detected. Meanings bind to the NCI Thesaurus Diagnostic Imaging branch where NCIT has a term for the modality; MICRO_CT and OTHER carry none.

URI: dismech:enum/ImagingModalityEnum

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description Additional Info
MRI NCIT:C16809 Magnetic resonance imaging, including structural and contrast-enhanced MRI Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
FUNCTIONAL_MRI NCIT:C17958 Blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional MRI Title: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
CT NCIT:C17204 X-ray computed tomography Title: Computed Tomography
MICRO_CT None In-vivo X-ray computed tomography acquired at micrometer-scale voxel resoluti... Title: Micro-Computed Tomography
PET NCIT:C17007 Positron emission tomography (e Title: Positron Emission Tomography
SPECT NCIT:C17203 Single-photon emission computed tomography Title: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
ULTRASOUND NCIT:C17230 Diagnostic ultrasonography, including Doppler and echocardiography Title: Ultrasound Imaging
XRAY NCIT:C38101 Projectional radiography (plain film) Title: X-Ray Imaging
MAMMOGRAPHY NCIT:C16818 X-ray imaging of the breast Title: Mammography
ANGIOGRAPHY NCIT:C190556 Imaging of blood vessels (CT, MR, or catheter angiography) Title: Angiography
OCT NCIT:C20828 Optical coherence tomography (e Title: Optical Coherence Tomography
OTHER None An imaging modality not otherwise enumerated Title: Other imaging modality

Slots

Name Description
modality The in-vivo imaging modality by which a finding is detected

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/monarch-initiative/dismech

LinkML Source

name: ImagingModalityEnum
description: In-vivo medical imaging modality by which an ImagingFinding is detected.
  Meanings bind to the NCI Thesaurus Diagnostic Imaging branch where NCIT has a term
  for the modality; MICRO_CT and OTHER carry none.
from_schema: https://w3id.org/monarch-initiative/dismech
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  MRI:
    text: MRI
    description: Magnetic resonance imaging, including structural and contrast-enhanced
      MRI
    meaning: NCIT:C16809
    title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  FUNCTIONAL_MRI:
    text: FUNCTIONAL_MRI
    description: Blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional MRI
    meaning: NCIT:C17958
    title: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  CT:
    text: CT
    description: X-ray computed tomography
    meaning: NCIT:C17204
    title: Computed Tomography
  MICRO_CT:
    text: MICRO_CT
    description: In-vivo X-ray computed tomography acquired at micrometer-scale voxel
      resolution, as used for live small-animal scanning and for high-resolution peripheral
      quantitative CT of human bone microarchitecture
    title: Micro-Computed Tomography
    comments:
    - Ex vivo micro-CT, including contrast-enhanced (diceCT) scanning of fixed embryos
      and the registration-based whole-embryo morphometry built on it, is a model
      or specimen readout rather than an ImagingFinding, which design decision 9 scopes
      to in-vivo imaging. Record it as an ExperimentalReadout on a model link (with
      an IMAGING dataset where the images are deposited), not under this value.
    - 'NCIT has no dedicated micro-CT term: no child of Computed Tomography (NCIT:C17204)
      names it, and a label or synonym search finds only High Resolution Computed
      Tomography (a clinical thin-slice technique) and High Resolution Peripheral
      Quantitative Computed Tomography (NCIT:C169101, a bone-specific application).
      This value therefore carries no NCIT meaning. The Measurement Method Ontology
      term MMO:0000570 (micro-computed tomography) names the concept exactly.'
    - 'Human HR-pQCT is grouped under this value deliberately, even though NCIT:C169101
      codes that specific technique: micrometer voxel scale is the property the modality
      axis is tracking, and a separate HR_PQCT value would serve a single technique
      in one organ system. A curator who needs the technique itself queryable can
      carry it in the finding''s description or bind NCIT:C169101 as a qualifier.'
  PET:
    text: PET
    description: Positron emission tomography (e.g., FDG-PET, amyloid-PET)
    meaning: NCIT:C17007
    title: Positron Emission Tomography
  SPECT:
    text: SPECT
    description: Single-photon emission computed tomography
    meaning: NCIT:C17203
    title: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
  ULTRASOUND:
    text: ULTRASOUND
    description: Diagnostic ultrasonography, including Doppler and echocardiography
    meaning: NCIT:C17230
    title: Ultrasound Imaging
  XRAY:
    text: XRAY
    description: Projectional radiography (plain film)
    meaning: NCIT:C38101
    title: X-Ray Imaging
  MAMMOGRAPHY:
    text: MAMMOGRAPHY
    description: X-ray imaging of the breast
    meaning: NCIT:C16818
    title: Mammography
  ANGIOGRAPHY:
    text: ANGIOGRAPHY
    description: Imaging of blood vessels (CT, MR, or catheter angiography)
    meaning: NCIT:C190556
    title: Angiography
  OCT:
    text: OCT
    description: Optical coherence tomography (e.g., retinal OCT)
    meaning: NCIT:C20828
    title: Optical Coherence Tomography
  OTHER:
    text: OTHER
    description: An imaging modality not otherwise enumerated
    title: Other imaging modality