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tomographic

tomographic adjective: of or pertaining to imaging by the method of rotating a radiation source and the accompanying sensor so that areas outside the required plane of investigation are not in focus.

Adjective

tomographic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to imaging by the method of rotating a radiation source and the accompanying sensor so that areas outside the required plane of investigation are not in focus.
    • The patient was examined using a positron emission tomographic system.
    • 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

Origin of tomographic

From tomography + -ic.

Words formed from tomographic

Questions about tomographic

What does tomographic mean?
Tomographic means of or pertaining to imaging by the method of rotating a radiation source and the accompanying sensor so that areas outside the required plane of investigation are not in focus.
What part of speech is tomographic?
Tomographic is an adjective.

Words near tomographic in the dictionary

  1. tomogram
  2. tomograms
  3. tomograph
  4. tomographer
  5. tomographers
  6. tomographic
  7. tomographical
  8. tomographically
  9. tomographies
  10. tomographs
  11. tomography

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