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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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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PET–CT (redirect from Positron emission tomography - computed tomography)
Positron emission tomography–computed 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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CT scan (redirect from Computed tomography of the heart)
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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X-ray microtomography (redirect from Micro computed tomography)
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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Clinical Imaging (redirect from CT: The Journal of Computed Tomography)
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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Image-guided radiation therapy (redirect from Megavoltage computed tomography)
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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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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Spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality (redirect from Spinal cord injury without computed tomography evidence of trauma)
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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Inverse problem (redirect from Doppler tomography)
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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Neuroimaging (section Computed axial tomography)
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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Atom probe (redirect from Atom-Probe Tomography)
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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