tomograph
IPA: toʊmˈoʊgræf
noun
- A machine for making an X-ray of a single plane of the body.
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Examples of "tomograph" in Sentences
- This tomograph has a magnetic field strength of 4 teslas.
- The object of the invention is an ultrasonic echo tomographic device.
- A computer tomograph with a fan shaped x ray beam and two detector arrays.
- A computer tomograph having a fan shaped x ray beam and two detector arrays.
- The first computer tomograph was constructed to be used for examining the skull, with special emphasis on diseases of the brain.
- More information: "X-ray micro-tomograph of Carboniferous stem-Dictyoptera: new insights into early insects" Biology Letters Journal, April 2010 issue.
- Then the four Tahirians crowded around to examine them, peering and sniffing (?), touching and feeling, gently but with unmistakable fascination, prior to putting them in the tomograph.
- The achievement is no less significant because all the components forming the basis for the construction and operation of the computed tomograph had been described earlier in non-medical publications.
- All centers in the world with access to a computed tomograph attest to the fact that the method has meant an enormous advance in diagnostics, therapy, development and research within the specialty of neurological diseases.
- Wholly independently of Cormack, he developed a method of his own for computerized tomography and constructed the first clinically usable computerized tomograph - the EMI scanner, which was intended for examinations of the head.
- In the next few weeks he had a special nuclear scan called a PET (positron emission tomograph) that tracked the functions of his brain and gave his neurologist -- he now had a specialist in his corner -- a picture of his problem.
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