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Computer tomography
noun
The term “computed tomography”, or CT, refers to a computerized x-ray imaging procedure in which a narrow beam of x-rays is aimed at a patient and quickly rotated around the body, producing signals that are processed by the machine's computer to generate cross-sectional images—or “slices”—of the body.
Example: The viewing medium can be X - rays, as in computerized tomographic (CT) scans; magnetic resonance of atomic nuclei, as in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scans; or emission from radioactively labelled substances incorporated into the structure of nerve cells as in positron emission tomographic (PET) scans.
