whole body scan
noun
A CT scan of the torso, especially one obtained for health screening purposes.Osman opted to try a ‘true whole body scan’ on the patient to evaluate his condition....
- That's still a small individual risk, but probably not worth taking for the limited value of these whole body scans.
- And I'll certainly not have a whole body scan with helical CT.
Derivatives
whole body scanning
- Meanwhile, on the other side of the former Iron Curtain, US contributors describe the growing fashion for whole body scanning.
- One advantage of the present invention is that it enables both tomographic and whole body scanning to be performed with a single table.
- The technique allows efficient whole body scanning for fast screening of abnormalities.