Industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning is any computer-aided tomographic process, usually X-ray computed tomography, that uses irradiation to produce...

A computed tomography scan (CT scan), formerly called computed axial tomography scan (CAT scan), is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed...

the mathematical procedure tomographic reconstruction, such as X-ray computed tomography technically being produced from multiple projectional radiographs...

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...

Quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is a medical technique that measures bone mineral density (BMD) using a standard X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner...

plethysmography X-ray microtomography X-ray computed tomography measurement "ACR–STR Practice Parameter for the Performance of High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT)...

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...

Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT, or less commonly, SPET) is a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique using gamma rays. It is very similar...

material in foods and pharmaceuticals. Industrial CT (computed tomography), a process that uses X-ray equipment to produce three-dimensional representations...

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...

computed tomography (CT scanning), an X-ray source and its associated detectors rotate around the subject, which itself moves through the conical X-ray...

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...

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...

abnormalities are commonly encountered during the interpretation of computed tomography (CT) exams performed for various clinical purposes. For example,...

(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...

with x-rays) to produce three-dimensional representations of the scanned object both externally and internally X-ray computed tomography measurement - a...

abdominal pain in adults, an abdominal X-ray has a low sensitivity and accuracy in general. Computed tomography provides an overall better surgical strategy...

modalities such as intravascular ultrasounds, and x-ray angiography (intracoronary optical coherence tomography). For this type of application, 1 mm in diameter...

angiography, or transesophageal echo) may be warranted.[citation needed] Computed tomography angiography is a fast, non-invasive test that gives an accurate three-dimensional...

used to construct images. However, in contrast to linear x-rays used in computed tomography, electric currents travel three dimensionally along all the...

and deoxygenated. The technology uses laser in the same way computed tomography uses X-rays; the beams travel through tissue and suffer attenuation. A...

to the reconstruction of X-ray computed tomography. The projection of an object, resulting from the tomographic measurement process at a given angle θ...

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...

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)...

and treating patients with the same particle. Proton computed tomography (pCT) uses measurements of a proton's position/trajectory and energy before and...

radiological investigations. Computed tomography (CT) or Computed Axial Tomography (CAT) scanning uses a series of x-rays of the head taken from many different...

Neutron stimulated emission computed tomography (NSECT) uses induced gamma emission through neutron inelastic scattering to generate images of the spatial...

be difficult (particularly in smaller pneumothoraces). A chest X-ray, computed tomography (CT) scan, or ultrasound is usually used to confirm its presence...

expands as it moves away. Computed tomography Industrial CT scanning Tomographic reconstruction X-ray computed tomography measurement Chris C. Shaw (14 February...

Computed tomography of the abdomen and pelvis is an application of computed tomography (CT) and is a sensitive method for diagnosis of abdominal diseases...