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tomographic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English tomography Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English tomographic From tomography + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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.
    • 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. 2015 August 14, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:
    • The patient was examined using a positron emission tomographic system.

Deriveds

microtomographic · polytomographic · tomographically · holotomographic · nanotomographic · cryotomographic

Relateds

subtomographic · tomogram · computed tomography · tomography