SEP 26, diagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy

a) Reprise of material posted on September 26 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto oases, Humber Bay park (photo-collage)
2021: humorists' scurrilous talk, the C-word (poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, CTE, traumatic encephalopathy (poem)

2023: decorative touches, Tulip Fields (fabric art)  

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 26, 2024):   

Authors' Note:   The confusing terminology for advanced, i.e. 3D medical imaging, uses acronyms that may be historically based or poorly explained. The development of a method of imaging known as ‘DOGgraphy’ is apocryphal. 

CAT: computerized axial tomography, X-ray imaging of a body section; better described in modern terms as ‘x-ray CT’

PET: positron (dual-photon) emission tomography; a Nuclear Medicine technique involving prior injection of a positron-emitting radionuclide ('isotope'); becoming an important modality in cancer assessment

Holography: processing of fields of light or other radiation scattered from objects; well developed with lasers, but with limited current application in medical imaging.

 You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!