Computerized axial tomography
Esquema
Jerarquía
image-making processes and techniques > photography and photographic processes and techniques > photographic techniques > picture-taking techniques > <picture-taking techniques by radiation type> > radiography > tomography
Descripción
Method of obtaining a series of cross-sections of internal structures of a body or object to create three-dimensional images; used in diagnostic medicine, but also in science for nondestructive testing of objects.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- computertomografie [nl]
- computed axial tomography [en]
- computed tomography [en]
- computerized tomography [en]
- computer-assisted tomography [en]
- tomography, computerized axial [en]
- CAT (tomography method) [en]
- CT [en]
- CAT scan [en]