tomographic

English

Etymology

tomography +‎ -ic

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.

   • 2015 August, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal‎^[1], volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:

     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 terms

• subtomographic
• tomogram
• tomography
• computed tomography

Anagrams

• motographic