computerized axial tomography

NOUN

computed tomography

Synonyms

WEAK

CAT scanning computed axial tomography computer-assisted tomography computerized tomography

Example Sentences

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Seventy-six years later, the computerized axial tomography, or CAT, scanner, hailed as the greatest advance in radiology since the discovery of X rays, appeared on the medical scene.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the 1960s he built the computerized axial tomography scanner, which uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior.

From Time Magazine Archive