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Noun: tomography  tu'mó-gru-fee
  1. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
    "The CT scan used tomography to create detailed images of her brain";
    - imaging
     
  2. The imaging of a three-dimensional body using many two-dimensional slices
    "The doctor ordered a CT scan, which uses tomography to create detailed images of the patient's internal organs"

Derived forms: tomographies

Type of: pictorial representation, picturing

Encyclopedia: Tomography, optical coherence