Tag: CAT scan
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Contrast Agents Commonly Applied In Medical Imaging
Contrast agents emphasize or magnify the physiological features or functions that would otherwise, be invisible, weak or obscured in images. Contrast agents are commonly applied in vasculature and also employed in applications where the uptake of an agent by an organ is used to indicate the degree of functional or metabolic activity. Each agent is…
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What is CAT scan?
The X-ray technique described in this post is a two-dimensional image. The most useful three-dimensional X-ray imaging technique is the CAT scan (Computerized Axial Tomography). To form a three-dimensional image of an organ; say for example the brain, a number of slices of the organ are considered and an X-ray image of the slice is…