SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON SAFETY AND HEALTH IN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Western medicine and the Chinese vision
Papers and debates, 18 November 1999
1st part : Western medicine  
Summary
 
 
1945 - 2000
HALF A CENTURY OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC PROGRESS
 
M. MARQUET


APPENDIX

THE SCANNER

Equipment
 


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Principle


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It allows all the human body to be explored in 1 cm to 0.8 mm thick sections. Used from the beginning of the 1990s.
Better and better performances, with short acquisition times and sharper digital image defmition. Allows a 3D reconstitution currently used in virtual fibroscopy.