ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tomographic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Tomographic is an adjective meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include computed, tomographical, sonotomographic, holotomographic, radiographic, echotomographic.

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