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    The history of X-ray computed tomography (CT) traces back to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's discovery of X-ray radiation in 1895 and its rapid adoption in medical...
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  • (industrial radiography) and computed tomographic radiography (computed tomography). Line beam scanning is the traditional process of industrial CT scanning...
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  • Thumbnail for Computed tomography angiography
    Computed tomography angiography (also called CT angiography or CTA) is a computed tomography technique used for angiography—the visualization of arteries...
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    Quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is a medical technique that measures bone mineral density (BMD) using a standard X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner...
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    Cone beam computed tomography (or CBCT, also referred to as C-arm CT, cone beam volume CT, flat panel CT or Digital Volume Tomography (DVT)) is a medical...
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    Positron emission tomographycomputed tomography (better known as PET–CT or PET/CT) is a nuclear medicine technique which combines, in a single gantry...
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    Computed tomography of the head uses a series of X-rays in a CT scan of the head taken from many different directions; the resulting data is transformed...
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  • A computed tomography scan (CT scan), formerly called computed axial tomography scan (CAT scan), is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed...
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    X-ray computed tomography operates by using an X-ray generator that rotates around the object; X-ray detectors are positioned on the opposite side of the...
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  • Computed tomography enterography (CT enterography, CTE) is a medical imaging technique which uses computed tomography scanner and contrast media to examine...
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    mathematical procedure tomographic reconstruction, such as X-ray computed tomography technically being produced from multiple projectional radiographs...
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  • abnormalities are commonly encountered during the interpretation of computed tomography (CT) exams performed for various clinical purposes. For example...
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    The computed tomography imaging spectrometer (CTIS) is a snapshot imaging spectrometer which can produce in fine the three-dimensional (i.e. spatial and...
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  • similar to tomography and X-ray computed tomography. The prefix micro- (symbol: μ) is used to indicate that the pixel sizes of the cross-sections are in the...
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    to form a three-dimensional image. PET scanners can incorporate a computed tomography scanner (CT) and are known as PET–CT scanners. PET scan images can...
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  • Computed tomography laser mammography (CTLM) is the trademark of Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (IDSI, United States) for its optical tomographic technique...
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  • Cone-beam spiral computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging technology that has impacted healthcare since its development in the early 1990s. This...
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  • fields in the brain.    Xenon computed tomography is a modern scanning technique that reveals the flow of blood to the areas of the brain. The scan tests...
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  • published by Elsevier on behalf of the New York Roentgen Society. The journal began publication in 1977 as Computed Axial Tomography. The founding editor was...
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  • entirety, of the measured seismic waveform to be fit during the inversion. Seismic tomography is similar to medical x-ray computed tomography (CT scan)...
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  • of IGRT would include comparison of a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) dataset, acquired on the treatment machine, with the computed tomography (CT)...
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  • "Comparison of gray values of cone-beam computed tomography with hounsfield units of multislice computed tomography: An in vitro study". Indian Journal of Dental...
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  • Thumbnail for Focal plane tomography
    In radiography, focal plane tomography is tomography (imaging a single plane, or slice, of an object) by simultaneously moving the X-ray generator and...
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  • Michelle C. Williams (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    data thematic lead of the British Heart Foundation. Williams is part of the SCOT-HEART clinical trials, which use computed tomography coronary angiography...
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    construct images. However, in contrast to linear x-rays used in computed tomography, electric currents travel three dimensionally along all the paths...
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  • evidence of trauma (SCIWORET) to describe these cases. Furthermore, the introduction of computed tomography enabled a more detailed depiction of the spine...
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  • process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them: for example, calculating an image in X-ray computed tomography, source...
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    radiological investigations. Computed tomography (CT) or Computed Axial Tomography (CAT) scanning uses a series of x-rays of the head taken from many different...
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  • A coronary CT calcium scan is a computed tomography (CT) scan of the heart for the assessment of severity of coronary artery disease. Specifically, it...
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    mass-to-charge ratio computed. Through successive evaporation of material, layers of atoms are removed from a specimen, allowing for probing not only of the surface...
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