"computed tomography" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: computed tomographies [plural]
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  1. A form of radiography which uses computer software to create images, or slices, at various planes of depth from images taken around a body or volume of interest. Sometimes called “computerized tomography”. (The radiation used is X-rays unless otherwise specified.)
    Such imaging applied to health care.
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  2. A form of radiography which uses computer software to create images, or slices, at various planes of depth from images taken around a body or volume of interest. Sometimes called “computerized tomography”. (The radiation used is X-rays unless otherwise specified.)
    Such imaging applied to industrial inspection or to security at airports, seaports, large public venues, and so on.
    Wikidata QID: Q1662063 Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: CT Hypernyms: tomography#Noun, <, imaging#Noun
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Related terms: CBCT, CT, CT scan, XRCT, MRI, fMRI, PET, SPECT, fluoroscopy Translations (form of radiography which uses computer software): 電腦斷層掃描 /电脑断层扫描 (diànnǎo duàncéng sǎomiáo) (Chinese Mandarin), 計算機體層成像 /计算机体层成像 (jìsuànjī tǐcéng chéngxiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), počítačová tomografie [feminine] (Czech), výpočetní tomografie [feminine] (Czech), komputila tomografio (Esperanto), tietokonetomografia (Finnish), tietokonekerroskuvaus (Finnish), Computertomographie [feminine] (German), tomografaíocht ríomhairithe [feminine] (Irish), tomografia computerizzata [feminine] (Italian), コンピュータ断層撮影 (Konpyūta dansō satsuei) (alt: コンピュータだんそうさつえい) (Japanese), компью́терная томогра́фия (kompʹjúternaja tomográfija) [feminine] (Russian), tomografía computerizada [feminine] (Spanish), ᠰᡟᡞ ᡨᡞ (syi ti) (Xibe)
Disambiguation of 'form of radiography which uses computer software': 50 50

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-20 using wiktextract (ed078bd and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.