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11Radiology — is the medical specialty directing medical imaging technologies to diagnose and treat diseases. Originally it was the aspect of medical science dealing with the medical use of electromagnetic energy emitted by X ray machines or other such… …
12Computerized tomography — Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X ray images and turns them in pictures. The computerized tomography (CT) scan can reveal some soft tissue and other structures that cannot be seen in… …
13diagnosis — /duy euhg noh sis/, n., pl. diagnoses / seez/. 1. Med. a. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. b. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbr.: Dx 2. Biol. scientific… …
14radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… …
15Raymond Vahan Damadian — (born March 16 1936) is an American practitioner of magnetic resonance imaging.Early lifeDamadian was born in Melville, New York, who earned his BS in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1956, and an M.D. degree from the… …
16Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold — ▪ 2005 British electrical engineer (b. Aug. 28, 1919, Newark, Nottinghamshire, Eng. d. Aug. 12, 2004, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Eng.), invented the CT (computed tomography) scanner, also known as the CAT (computerized axial tomography)… …
17Astrocytoma — Caption = Two images the above of which shows a normal brain and the below shows astrocytoma. OMIM = 137800 OMIM mult = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 2693 DiseasesDB = 29449 Astrocytomas are primary central nervous system… …
18voxel — A contraction for volume element, which is the basic unit of CT or MR reconstruction; represented as a pixel in the display of the CT or MR image. * * * n. short for volume element , the volume of tissue in a body that is represented by a pixel… …
19positron-emission tomography — noun Date: 1976 tomography in which a cross sectional image of regional metabolism is obtained by a usually color coded representation of the distribution of gamma radiation given off in the collision of electrons in cells with positrons emitted… …
20Mitochondrion — For the metal band, see Mitochondrion (band). Two mitochondria from mammalian lung tissue displaying their matrix and membranes as shown by electron microscopy …
