computerized axial tomography
- computerized axial tomography
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the process of producing a CAT scan. Also called
computed tomography, computer-assisted tomography, computerized tomography. Cf.
CAT scanner.
[1970-75]
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diagnostic imaging method using a low-dose beam of
X-rays that crosses the body in a single plane at many different angles.
Computerized axial tomography was conceived by William Oldendorf and developed independently by Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (
Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold) and Allan MacLeod Cormack (
Cormack, Allan MacLeod), who shared a 1979 Nobel Prize for their inventions. A major advance in imaging technology, it became generally available in the early 1970s. Detectors record the strength of the exiting X-rays; this information is then processed by computer to produce a detailed two-dimensional cross-sectional image of the body. A series of such images in parallel planes or around an axis can show the location of abnormalities (especially tumours and other masses) more precisely than can conventional X-ray images.
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Universalium.
2010.
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computerized axial tomography scan — A series of detailed pictures of areas inside the body taken from different angles. The pictures are created by a computer linked to an x ray machine. Also called CAT scan, computed tomography scan, CT scan, and computerized tomography … English dictionary of cancer terms
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