Definisjon av tomography

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Noun

tomography - (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
imaging
pictorial representation, picturing visual representation as by photography or painting
medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
x-raying, x-radiation obtaining images by the use of X rays
echography, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs
positron emission tomography, pet using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)
magnetic resonance imaging, mri the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images
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Substantiv

tomography - Imaging by sections or sectioning.

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  • Tomography is imaging by sections or sectioning, through the use of any kind of penetrating wave. A device used in tomography is called a tomograph, while the image produced is a tomogram. The method is used in radiology, archaeology, biology, geophysics, oceanography, materials science, astrophysics and other sciences.

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