Computerized Tomography

It's a special kind of X-ray that can produce pictures of a cross section of your body or any of its parts.  In fact, tomography comes from the Greek word tomos, meaning slice or section, and graphia, meaning recording.  Thus, tomography is a recording of a slice or section.

Computerized Tomography (CT) is used for many diagnostic procedures:

• Head scans to rule out blood clots, enlarged ventricles, abnormalities in nerves and muscles of the eye
• Body scans help to diagnose enlarged lynph nodes, pancreatic disease, back problems, and lung cancer