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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Specimens that are too large for fluid preservation are also unlikely to fit into a CT scanner, but researchers were reluctant to leave these out.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2024

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

The ECT has made other improvements that have helped to speed up waiting times, including a new CT scanner.

From BBC Mar. 27, 2023

The key to a successful EVT, they believed, was in rushing a patient to a CT scanner, verifying that their clot was a viable target for extraction and then pulling it out without delay.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2023

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