AJR Abbreviation List

AJR style is to not spell out the following abbreviations in articles' title, abstract, text, tables, and figure legends. These terms may be spelled out when appearing in a quotation or the article’s reference list. This guidance is applied by the journal office during production of accepted manuscripts and need not be followed for articles to undergo peer review or receive acceptance. However, authors may find this information useful when preparing manuscripts, for example to conserve space relative to the word limits for the abstract and manuscript text.

2D, 3D, 4D except at beginning of sentence
AC for alternating current
ADC
AJCC
ALARA
ANOVA
ARRS
AUC
bFFE
BI-RADS
BMI
CA 125
CA 19-9
CD for clusters of differentiation
CDC
CEA
CI
CME
CMS
CNR
CNS
COVID-19
CPT
CSF
CT
CTA for CT angiography
CTDI, CTDI_vol
DC for direct current and District of Columbia
DICOM
DLP
DNA
DOTANOC, DOTATATE, DOTATOC
DWI
ECG
EHR
EMR
ERCP
FDA
FDG
FFE
FIESTA
FISP
FLAIR
FLASH
FOLFIRINOX
FOV
GRAPPA
H and E
HASTE
HBED-CC
HCG
HER2
HIDA
HIPAA
HR for hazard ratio
HTML
HTTP, http, https
ICD
ICU
IDEAL
IgA, IgM, etc.
IQR
IV
LAVA
LI-RADS
Lung-RADS
Mac OS
MDCT
MIBG
MIBI
MP-RAGE
MR
MRA for MR angiography
MRCP
MRI
NCCN
NIH
NPV
NSAID
OR for odds ratio
O-RADS
PACS
PaO₂, PO₂
PCR
PET
PIOPED
PI-RADS
PPV
PRISMA
PROPELLER
PSA for prostate-specific antigen
PSMA
QUADAS, QUADAS-2
R wave, R-R wave
RARE
RBC
RECIST
ROC
ROI
SARS-CoV-2
SD
SEER
SMASH
SNR
SPACE
SPECT
SPGR
SSFP
SSFSE
STARD
STIR
SunOS
SUV, SUV_max, SUV_mean, SUV_min
TE for echo time
THRIVE
TIFF
TIPS
TNM
TR for repetition time
trueFISP
UICC
USP
VHS
VIBE
WBC
WHO