• Industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning is any computer-aided tomographic process, usually X-ray computed tomography, that uses irradiation to produce...
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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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    the mathematical procedure tomographic reconstruction, such as X-ray computed tomography technically being produced from multiple projectional radiographs...
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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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    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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    plethysmography X-ray microtomography X-ray computed tomography measurement "ACR–STR Practice Parameter for the Performance of High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT)...
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    Tomography (DVT)) is a medical imaging technique consisting of X-ray computed tomography where the X-rays are divergent, forming a cone. CBCT has become increasingly...
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    Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT, or less commonly, SPET) is a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique using gamma rays. It is very similar...
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    material in foods and pharmaceuticals. Industrial CT (computed tomography), a process that uses X-ray equipment to produce three-dimensional representations...
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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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  • 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 dose index (CTDI) is a commonly used radiation exposure index in X-ray computed tomography (CT), first defined in 1981. The unit...
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  • with x-rays) to produce three-dimensional representations of the scanned object both externally and internally X-ray computed tomography measurement - a...
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    computed tomography (CT scanning), an X-ray source and its associated detectors rotate around the subject, which itself moves through the conical X-ray...
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    (supine sagittal). X-ray of measurement of spondylolisthesis at the lumbosacral joint, being 25% (grade 1) in this example X-ray picture of a grade 1...
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    Computed tomography of the abdomen and pelvis is an application of computed tomography (CT) and is a sensitive method for diagnosis of abdominal diseases...
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    Cone beam reconstruction (category X-ray computed tomography)
    expands as it moves away. Computed tomography Industrial CT scanning Tomographic reconstruction X-ray computed tomography measurement Chris C. Shaw (14 February...
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    angiography, or transesophageal echo) may be warranted.[citation needed] Computed tomography angiography is a fast, non-invasive test that gives an accurate three-dimensional...
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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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    abdominal pain in adults, an abdominal X-ray has a low sensitivity and accuracy in general. Computed tomography provides an overall better surgical strategy...
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    used to construct images. However, in contrast to linear x-rays used in computed tomography, electric currents travel three dimensionally along all the...
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  • Tomographic reconstruction (category Tomography)
    to the reconstruction of X-ray computed tomography. The projection of an object, resulting from the tomographic measurement process at a given angle θ...
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    modalities such as intravascular ultrasounds, and x-ray angiography (intracoronary optical coherence tomography). For this type of application, 1 mm in diameter...
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    an X-ray beam that passes through an object in order to create its images. Standard X-ray imaging techniques like radiography or computed tomography (CT)...
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    be difficult (particularly in smaller pneumothoraces). A chest X-ray, computed tomography (CT) scan, or ultrasound is usually used to confirm its presence...
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    conventional CT scans. Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), also known as digital volume tomography (DVT), is a special type of X-ray technology that generates...
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    Birefringence (redirect from Ordinary ray)
    interacts with other biomolecules. For the 3D measurement of birefringence, a technique based on holographic tomography [1] can be used. Birefringence is used...
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  • blood volume with emission computed tomography. Synchrotron Radiation Computed Tomography uses a monochromatic and parallel X-ray beam to measure the value...
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  • during the inversion. Seismic tomography is similar to medical x-ray computed tomography (CT scan) in that a computer processes receiver data to produce...
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  • and treating patients with the same particle. Proton computed tomography (pCT) uses measurements of a proton's position/trajectory and energy before and...
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