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Tomography

Medical Definition: Imaging methods that result in sharp images of objects located on a chosen plane and blurred images located above or below the plane.
Guide Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition; used for non-x-ray & non-radionuclide tomographies; echotomography seen in foreign lit is probably ULTRASONOGRAPHY & if so use "ultrasonics" or "ultrasonic diagnosis" or "ultrasonography" in translations & not "
Tomography Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Tomography, Optical - Projection of near-IR light (INFRARED RAYS), in the 700-1000 nm region, across an object in parallel beams to an array of sensitive photodetectors. This is repeated at various angles and a mathematical reconstruction provides three dimensional MEDICAL IMAGING of tissues. Based on the relative transparency of tissues to this spectra, it has been used to monitor local oxygenation, brain and joints.

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