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Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Imaging > Tomography

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Tomography  

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  • used for non-x-ray and non-radionuclide tomographies; echotomography seen in foreign literature is probably ULTRASONOGRAPHY and if so use "ultrasonics" or "ultrasonic diagnosis" or "ultrasonography" in translations and not "echotomography"

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  • Imaging methods that result in sharp images of objects located on a chosen plane and blurred images located above or below the plane.

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