imaging
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.
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.
Origin of imaging
1Words Nearby imaging
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How to use imaging in a sentence
After all, brain imaging captures the aggregated and averaged activity of thousands, if not more, neurons simultaneously.
This Is Where Empathy Lives in the Brain, and How It Works | Shelly Fan | February 2, 2021 | Singularity HubTherefore, 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.
Vibrations from trains could help seismologists peer underground | Rahul Rao | February 1, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSpacety wants to launch a constellation of these satellites to offer high-quality imaging at low cost.
China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US | Neel Patel | January 21, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe mystery persisted until Bock teamed up with his postdoctoral fellow Alexander Hertle, who had expertise in live-cell imaging and microscopy.
Plant Cells of Different Species Can Swap Organelles | Viviane Callier | January 20, 2021 | Quanta MagazineSamsung built a new imaging processor chipset into the device, but didn’t provide a ton of information about what it is.
Watch Samsung announce its new Galaxy S21 smartphones and Galaxy Buds Pro | Stan Horaczek | January 14, 2021 | Popular-Science
And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBody parts, food, and appliances seen with a thermal imaging camera.
The Hot and Cold of Everyday Life (NSFW) | The Daily Beast Video | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGillespie had forensic-imaging experts examine photos taken of the plane and its patched-over window at the Miami airport.
“NDSC is trying to decrease and change the appropriateness of imaging,” Bettmann said.
“Outpatient imaging actually subsidizes other medical departments,” Chris Sistrom, MD, MPH, Ph.D., told The Daily Beast.
In the public mind the Imagination is regarded as something connected with idle dreaming and fanciful mental imaging.
Thought-Culture | William Walker AtkinsonCan we not see Orient and Occident imaging themselves in their respective ideal products?
Homer's Odyssey | Denton J. SniderThe mental imaging of colors may be materially aided by concentration upon physical material of the right color.
The Human Aura | Swami PanchadasiExceptional visual and auditive imaging power are rarely present in the same individual.
A Librarian's Open Shelf | Arthur E. BostwickHe had amused himself, of late, by imaging his relation to her in the fable of the sun and the traveller.
Tante | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Scientific definitions for imaging
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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.
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