Fluoroscopy is a type of medical imaging that shows a continuous X-ray image on a monitor, much like an X-ray movie. During a fluoroscopy procedure, an X-ray beam is passed through the body. Fluoroscopy, as an imaging tool, enables physicians to look at many body systems, including the skeletal, digestive, urinary, respiratory, and reproductive systems. Both live moving images and recorded still images were available from the very beginning with simple equipment; thus, both "looking with a fluorescent screen" (fluoro- + -scopy) and "recording/engraving with radiation" (radio- + -graphy) were immediately named with New Latin words—both words are attested since 1896.

Fluoroscopy is a study of moving body structures—similar to an x-ray 'movie'. The x-ray beam is passed through the body part being examined and is transmitted to a TV-like monitor, so that the body part and its movement can be visualised in 'real time. Fluoroscopy allows your doctor to see your organs and tissues working on a video screen, similar to watching a movie. Fluoroscopy helps diagnose and treat many conditions of the blood vessels, bones, joints, and digestive, urinary, respiratory and reproductive systems.

In A fluoroscopic guided injection involves injecting medicine directly into the joint. It is used primarily for therapeutic reasons combining a corticosteroid and numbing agent. These injections can help diagnose the source of pain, as well as alleviate the discomfort.

Types of Fluoroscopy

1. Musculoskeletal Fluoroscopy.
2. Barium Swallow.
3. Fluoroscopic Enteroclysis.
4. Fluoroscopic Defecography
5. Fluoroscopic Small Bowel Follow Through
6. Fluoroscopic IVP (Intravenous Pyelogram)
7. A Fluoroscopic VCUG (voiding cystourethrogram)
8. Fluoroscopic HSG (hysterosalpingogram)

Getting a fluoroscopic procedure exposes a patient to as much radiation as 250 to 3,500 chest X-rays. For perspective, a person gets the equivalent of one chest X-ray from normal background radiation in about two and a half days. Enhancing Healthcare Team Outcomes. Fluoroscopy provides cost-effective, low radiation dose imaging that can help identify pathology and guide therapeutic interventions. Contrast agents help easily distinguish between different tissue types to aid in the accuracy of a procedure being performed. Radiation-related risks associated with fluoroscopy include: radiation-induced injuries to the skin and underlying tissues (“burns”), which occur shortly after the exposure, and. radiation-induced cancers, which may occur sometime later in life.

The mean effective radiation dose for patients is lower for fluoroscopy-guided compared with CT-guided lumbar spinal injections. The mean radiation exposure for interventionalists is higher during fluoroscopy-guided compared with CT-guided lumbar transforaminal epidural and lumbar facet joint injections.