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  • Thalamus@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHopsital
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    1 year ago

    It’s a transverse section so it’s not really ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’. It’s a thin slice where the densities of the tissue is calculated by sending through X-rays from around the body and measuring how much gets trough from each angle and then letting a computer do some fancy math.