Meaning of TOMOGRAPHY
| Pronunciation: | | tu'mâgrufee
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| | Definition: | | [n] (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body |
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| | Synonyms: | | imaging |
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| | See Also: | | magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, PET, pictorial representation, picturing, positron emission tomography, radiology, radioscopy, sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound, X-radiation, X-raying | |
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| | Definition: | | from the Greek words "to cut or section" (tomos) and "to write" (graphein); in nuclear medicine, it is a method of separating interference from the area of interest by imaging a cut section of the object. |
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| | Definition: | | Tomography is a method of diagnostic imaging to produce cross-sectional images of the body. |
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