imaging

[ im-uh-jing ]

noun

1. Psychology. a technique in which one uses mental images to control bodily processes and thus ease pain or to succeed in some endeavor that one has visualized in advance.
2. Medicine/Medical. the use of computerized axial tomography, sonography, or other specialized techniques and instruments to obtain pictures of the interior of the body, especially those including soft tissues.

imaging

/ ĭm′ĭ-jĭng /

1. The creation of visual representations of objects, such as a body parts or celestial bodies, for the purpose of medical diagnosis or data collection, using any of a variety of usually computerized techniques. Within the field of medicine, important imaging technologies include compuertized axial tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography.

Word History and Origins

Origin of imaging¹

First recorded in 1660–70, for the earlier sense “imagination”; image + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

After all, brain imaging captures the aggregated and averaged activity of thousands, if not more, neurons simultaneously.

From Singularity Hub 

Therefore, researchers find it harder to use trains for imaging near the surface, although scientists like Lavoué's colleague Laura Pinzon-Rincon are working to overcome that hurdle by better understanding the trains’ signals.

From Popular-Science

Spacety wants to launch a constellation of these satellites to offer high-quality imaging at low cost.

From MIT Technology Review

The mystery persisted until Bock teamed up with his postdoctoral fellow Alexander Hertle, who had expertise in live-cell imaging and microscopy.

From Quanta Magazine

Samsung built a new imaging processor chipset into the device, but didn’t provide a ton of information about what it is.

From Popular-Science

And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.

From The Daily Beast

Body parts, food, and appliances seen with a thermal imaging camera.

From The Daily Beast

Gillespie had forensic-imaging experts examine photos taken of the plane and its patched-over window at the Miami airport.

From The Daily Beast

“NDSC is trying to decrease and change the appropriateness of imaging,” Bettmann said.

From The Daily Beast

“Outpatient imaging actually subsidizes other medical departments,” Chris Sistrom, MD, MPH, Ph.D., told The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

In the public mind the Imagination is regarded as something connected with idle dreaming and fanciful mental imaging.

From Project Gutenberg

Can we not see Orient and Occident imaging themselves in their respective ideal products?

From Project Gutenberg

The mental imaging of colors may be materially aided by concentration upon physical material of the right color.

From Project Gutenberg

Exceptional visual and auditive imaging power are rarely present in the same individual.

From Project Gutenberg

He had amused himself, of late, by imaging his relation to her in the fable of the sun and the traveller.

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