Once it circulated for 10 minutes, I was asked to sit upright inside a circular, open capsule for a Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) scan.

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The technique can provide excellent, detailed images of the body's soft tissue and is an alternative to using X-ray techniques such as computed tomography (CT).

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And recent computed tomography (CT) scans of the thighbone of a six-million-year-old Kenyan creature known as Orrorin tugenensis suggest it might have had quite a human gait.

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Hundreds of extra hospital beds, and the opening of 10 new major hospitals are also praised, as is the 30% increase in the number of computer tomography (CT) cancer scanners.

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The early use of fracking to get at reserves previously thought of as unrecoverable, shortly after the turn of the 21st century, came about after exploration companies began examining geologic formations using x-ray computed tomography, or CT scanners.

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CT, which stands for computed tomography, builds up a more revealing picture than a simple x-ray by taking a series of cross-section pictures.

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