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  • n  (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

  • Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones.
  • Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography .
  • Davidson's tools are the new technologies of brain science: quantitative electrophysiology, positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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  • Zahi Hawass in TopNews
    The DNA tests and computerized tomography (CT) scans, to be performed at Cairo University, should be finished by December,said Hawass.
  • Jim Hunter in FOXNews
    I'm going for a PET (positron emission tomography) scan - that's when they run dye through your system and find out whether the tumor is gone or in remission or whatever,said Hunter, recalling how this journey began at Talladega Superspeedway...

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