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Therefore, only a fraction of it is available to pass
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all the way through your body and expose the X-ray film.
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We're going to talk about
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several alternate forms of imaging today,
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many of which are similar to CT imaging.
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Now, CT imaging is a special form of X-ray imaging
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where you rotate the source of X-rays
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and the detector around the object
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you're trying to image around the patient.
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You take images at a large number of angles
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and using mathematical approaches
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you reconstruct the three dimensional image