gantries

Noun

gantry (plural gantries)

1. A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
2. A supporting framework for a barrel.
3. A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
4. (Singapore, broadly) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
5. (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
   • In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.2015 August, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127