tomographic

tomographic

English

Etymology

    From 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.

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