tomographic

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adjective

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.”

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Meanings

adjectivetomographic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf 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.

    1 more example

    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 28, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
laminographic

Origin

From tomography + -ic.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

motographic
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tomographic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tomographic.

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