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Tomography

Tomography is a method of scanning a physical three dimensional object, and creating a digital, 3D replica by dividing the object into sections, scanning each separately, and then recombining them afterwards to create a final model.

Tomography is frequently used in health care. Almost every method of invasive scanning, including MRI, PET, CT, and others, uses a tomography approach, slicing the body up into thousands of layers, each of which is scanned separately, and later stacked together to create the 3D result.

3D surface scanners also use tomography, scanning an object from one angle, then rotating it slightly and taking another scan, rotating again, et cetera. Each of the tomographic scans is only a piece of the model. It is only when they are all put together that the actual shape emerges.

See Also: Tomograph, Tomogram, Tomographic Reconstruction, Polytomography, MRI, SPECT, PET, Computed Tomography, Optical Tomography, Computer Aided Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Tomography, Optical Coherence Tomography, Positron Emission Tomography

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Related Dictionary Entries for Tomography:

CAT

Computed Tomography

Computer Aided Tomography

CT

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy

ISAM

Magnetic Resonance Tomography

MRT

NDT

OCT

Optical Coherence Tomography

Optical Tomography

PET

Polytomography

Positron Emission Tomography

Real Time Radiography

RTR

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

SPECT

SPET

Tomogram

Tomograph

Tomographic Reconstruction

Tomography



 

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Fast Adaptive Optics for 3D Medical Imaging
One of the greatest problems with tomography based medical scanners, is what happens when the patient moves (breathes, or pumps blood). The distortion that occurs in each slice has long been correctable, but takes a long time to correct. With near-instant correction now possible, real-time medical scanning is starting to look like a true possibility.



 

Industry News containing the Term Tomography:

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(01/10/2009)
Research published in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found an effective combination of positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) (PET/CT) tests to diagnose lung cancer in a "fast-tracked" ...


(02/12/2011)
A Stradivarius violin has been "recreated" using an X-ray scanner normally used to detect cancers and injuries, according to researchers. The US-based group used a computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanner on the 307-year-old instrument...


(22/02/2009)
The University of Chicago Hospitals recently got hold of the Philips' Brilliance iCT 256 slice CT scanner. The first patient to be imaged on the device is a 2,800 year old mummy of an Egyptian singer-priestess named Meresamun. Now visitors...


(05/08/2013)
An iconic moment in the history of Hollywood movie magic was born in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz when Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale stepped out of the black and white world of Kansas into the rainbow colored world of Oz. An iconic moment ...


(30/09/2008)
A new version of the computerized tomography (CT) scan, which revolutionized medical imaging, is giving scientists precious new information about how Mother Nature forms shells, bones, and other hard structures in animals ranging from guppi...