Department of Radiology. Interventional. Interventional Radiology is a specialty whereby minimally invasive procedures are performed with the use of image guidance (CT scans, ultrasounds, and x-rays).
T RUNCATION & W ILDCARD O PERATORS revised 1/08gs Truncation Use the truncation symbols to create searches where you want to retrieve all variants of a word stem. The most commonly used truncation symbol is the asterisk (*).For example, a search for educat* will retrieve: educate, educating, education, educational, educator, educators, etc. Wildcards A wildcard symbol is used within a word to provide for all possible spellings or variations inside a word or word stem. RUNCATION & W ILDCARD O PERATORS revised 1/08gs Truncation Use the truncation symbols to create searches where you want to retrieve all variants of a word stem. The most commonly used truncation symbol is the asterisk (*).
Definition of TRUNCATION: 1 Ending of a computational procedure in accordance with some program rule as soon as a specified accuracy has been reached. 2 Rejection of final digits in a number, thus lessening precision but not necessarily accuracy. See rounding.