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CT scanner

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noun

  1. Former name: CAT scanner.  computerized tomography scanner: an X-ray machine that can produce stereographic images

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The day of the appointment, the medical staff injected a radioactive tracer into Gluck’s bloodstream, then instructed him to lie down on a machine similar to a CT scanner.

From Slate May 2, 2025

Fossils from this era, called the Middle Jurassic, are extremely rare, says Dr Liz Martin-Silverstone at the University of Bristol who used a CT scanner to make a 3D digital model of the fossil.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2024

“We measured the whole vertebral skeleton of a living great white shark with a CT scanner and compared that to the previous reconstruction of the Megalodon vertebral column,” Sternes said.

From Science Daily Jan. 21, 2024

There’s a defibrillator and a portable ultrasound on the I.S.S., but no CT scanner or M.R.I. machine.

From New York Times Nov. 12, 2023

Within two years of Americore acquiring the facility, the company capped paychecks at $500 and the emergency room’s CT scanner broke.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2023

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