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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.

• imaging

News & Articles

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• Research and Markets: Global and Chinese Cone Beam Computed Tomography Report 2013
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global and Chinese Cone Beam Computed Tomography Report 2013"
  June 20, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• FluoroPharma Medical Announces Internal Review of Currently Acquired Imaging Data From Phase II Study for CardioPET(TM ...
  FluoroPharma Medical, Inc. , a company specializing in the development of novel diagnostic imaging products that utilize positron emission tomography technology for the detection and assessment of disease ...
  June 20, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• WMIS Welcomes CMS Decision: Expanding Coverage for FDG-PET and Ending NOPR Data
  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final decision memorandum concluding that FDG Position Emission Tomography (PET) is nationally covered to guide subsequent management of anti-tumor strategy, and the agency ended the requirement for prospective data collection. (PRWeb June 18, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10840812.htm
  June 18, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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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...