Sentence The term "CT" is an abbreviation that stands for the words “computer tomography” or “computed tomography” and is commonly used in medical and scientific contexts.
It is correct and usable in written English. For example, “He is scheduled for a CT scan this afternoon to check for any underlying issues.”.
In some hospitals an inability to diagnose the patient's illness or get a full picture of their condition, because X-rays or CT or MRI scans are not available 24/7, can also be a problem.
What do we expect from a system in which, as ProPublica reports today, body imaging companies hire telemarketers to sell random people CT scans over the phone?Matthew Yglesias takes the right tack by comparing the medical industry to the shoe industry, where we all agree that the private sector produces far better shoes at far lower cost than could be produced by a state-owned manufacturer.
In forensic cases CT scans are often used to spot fractures and haemorrhages.
That will allow for more accurate CT scans.
Since then, the company—renamed China Mobile has become the world's largest mobile-phone operator and a blue chip on Hong Kong's stock exchange.This week, another mainland telecoms company called China Telecom (CT) came to Hong Kong, hoping to repeat this performance.
One coping mechanism categorising patients and splitting them into multiple queues exacerbated the problem; one hospital had 72 different queues for computerised topography (CT) scans.
The last couple of decades have seen many innovations in reducing this "time to CT".
Ronald de Jong of Philips, a Dutch multinational, reveals that his firm sold more high-end CT scanners in China last year than it did in America.
Now Indian-based companies are moving into an wider range of services: reading CT-scans and X-rays, processing legal documents and helping with animation.
This allows sections requiring further study to be identified.These sections are dissected, using a laser, into slices a millimetre or less thick, and then scanned again, either with the micro-CT or with a scanning electron microscope.
Until now, no monitor has been able to display the 5m pixels of data that a typical CT-scanning machine produces.
