(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

Usage examples of tomography.

Seismic tomography attempts to use seismic waves to do the same for the interior of the Earth.

If the early settlers had been allowed to use seismic tomography to decide where to place Station, it might all have been avoided, but the Greens had exerted pressure on world governments and on the UN to ban the importation of large explosives to the Moon.

Michael Lemonick has described a computer-generated image of the brain based on a positron-emission tomography scan as a sad thought.

Kaye had been through seven varieties of NMR, PET, and computerized tomography scans.

The core drillings, the seismic tomography, the petrography and magnetometry and analytical chemistryall of the tools of physical geology he found interesting and was adept at using and interpreting, but at heart what he most liked was just walking in the territory with a hammer and a hand lens, looking at the terrain and picking up rocks.

With computerized tomography, we can map a Strad perfectly in three dimensions.

Computerized axial tomography allowed one to look into the human cranium, revealing the brain slice by slice.

Far from being a bare-bones policy, Medicaid covers such procedures as biofeedback, impotence treatment, sex-change operations, computerized tomography, and even obesity treatment.

FDG Positron Emission Tomography and other neuroimaging devices for suspected dementia.

FDG Positron Emission Tomography and other neuroimaging devices for suspected dementia.

No pitons full of microchips, which could have performed ultrasound tomography of the cliff face and computed their own load-bearing capacity.

The core drillings, the seismic tomography, the petrography and magnetometry and analytical chemistry—.

I was examined, x-rayed, scanned, subjected to positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, covered by four hundred electrodes, strapped to a special chair, and asked to look through a slit at pictures of apples, dogs, forks, combs, old people, tables, mice, mushrooms, cigars, glasses, nude women, and babies, after which they told me what I already knew: that when they showed me a billiard ball so that only my left hemisphere could see it and at the same time put my right hand into a bag with many objects, I wasn't able to choose the ball, and vice versa.

I was examined, x-rayed, scanned, subjected to positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, covered by four hundred electrodes, strapped to a special chair, and asked to look through a slit at pictures of apples, dogs, forks, combs, old people, tables, mice, mushrooms, cigars, glasses, nude women, and babies, after which they told me what I already knew: that when they showed me a billiard ball so that only my left hemisphere could see it and at the same time put my right hand into a bag with many objects, I wasn't able to choose the ball, and vice versa .

It is rivalled only by the lesser-known and still rather experimental PET-scan, or Positron Emission Tomography.