computer tomographic scanner

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• PET scanner — noun a tomograph that produces cross sectional X rays of metabolic processes in the body • Syn: ↑positron emission tomography scanner • Hypernyms: ↑tomograph * * * noun : a medical instrument consisting of integrated X ray and computing equipment …   Useful english dictionary

• PET scanner — a tomographic imaging device that yields visual information about the ongoing activity of the brain: positron emitting isotopes, incorporated into biologically important compounds, are injected intravenously or administered by inhalation, and the …   Universalium

• Computed tomography — tomos (slice) and graphein (to write).Computed tomography was originally known as the EMI scan as it was developed at a research branch of EMI, a company best known today for its music and recording business. It was later known as computed axial… …   Wikipedia

• X-ray computed tomography — For non medical computed tomography, see Industrial CT Scanning. catSCAN redirects here. For the Transformers character, see Transformers: Universe. X ray computed tomography Intervention A patient is receiving a CT scan for cancer. Outsid …   Wikipedia

• Cormack, Allan MacLeod — ▪ 1999       South African born American physicist (b. Feb. 23, 1924, Johannesburg, S.Af. d. May 7, 1998, Winchester, Mass.), formulated the mathematical algorithms that made possible the development of the cross sectional X ray imaging process… …   Universalium

• Medical imaging — This article is about imaging techniques and modalities for the human body. For imaging of animals in research, see Preclinical imaging. Medical imaging Diagnostics A CT scan image showing a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm …   Wikipedia

• Positron emission tomography — (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique which produces a three dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron emitting radionuclide (tracer), which is… …   Wikipedia

• Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie — Die Positronen Emissions Tomographie (von altgriechisch τομή, tome, „Schnitt“ und γράφειν, graphein, „schreiben“), Abkürzung PET, ist als Variante der Emissionscomputertomographie ein bildgebendes Verfahren der Nuklearmedizin, das… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• PET-CT — Die Positronen Emissions Tomographie (von altgr. τομή, tome, „Schnitt“ und γράφειν, graphein, „schreiben“), Abkürzung PET, ist ein bildgebendes Verfahren der Nuklearmedizin, das Schnittbilder von lebenden Organismen erzeugt, indem es die… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• PET-Scan — Die Positronen Emissions Tomographie (von altgr. τομή, tome, „Schnitt“ und γράφειν, graphein, „schreiben“), Abkürzung PET, ist ein bildgebendes Verfahren der Nuklearmedizin, das Schnittbilder von lebenden Organismen erzeugt, indem es die… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Positronen-Emissions-Tomografie — Die Positronen Emissions Tomographie (von altgr. τομή, tome, „Schnitt“ und γράφειν, graphein, „schreiben“), Abkürzung PET, ist ein bildgebendes Verfahren der Nuklearmedizin, das Schnittbilder von lebenden Organismen erzeugt, indem es die… …   Deutsch Wikipedia