See Also: HRCT(medicine)

planktont (iou) and HRCT (medicine)


planktont (iou)



planktont noun. L19.
[formed as PLANKTON + -ONT.]
Biology. An individual planktonic organism.

HRCT (medicine)


HRCT -->
high resolution computed tomography
Computed tomography with narrow collimation to reduce volume-averaging and an edge-enhancing reconstruction algorithm to sharpen the image, sometimes with a restricted field of view to minimise the size of pixels in the region imaged; used particularly for lung imaging.

Hypocycloidal tomography, body section radiography using a complex Film and tube motion with a pattern resembling a three-leaf clover.