computerized tomography

noun

1. med a radiological technique that produces images of cross sections through a patient's body using low levels of radiation Also called (esp US)computed tomography CT See also CT scanner

Example Sentences

She and another Shubin postdoc, Yara Haridy, conducted micro–computerized tomography scans of little skate embryos at 20, 28, and more than 30 weeks old.

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A computerized tomography scan is scheduled for later this week to look into other possible chronic health issues that may have caused his decline, Clifford said.

From Seattle Times

Juan Benito and Daniel Field, paleontologists at the University of Cambridge who study bird evolution, borrowed the fossil in 2018 from the Natural History Museum of Maastricht so they could use computerized tomography to image these remaining bones.

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The 10 staff then in the confinement building received a radiation dose roughly equal to that from a computerized tomography scan, NIST’s website says.

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For example, in October 2020, a couple brought its inconsolable 5-week-old boy to the Rady emergency room; a computerized tomography scan showed brain abnormalities.

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