Sinogram

Sinogram

Sinogram can mean:

In Typography

* a Chinese character.

In Imaging

* the resulting image after a Radon transform or equivalently
* an image representation of raw data obtained in a Tomographic reconstruction
* What is a sinogram?

A sinogram is a special x-ray procedure that is done with contrast media (x-ray dye) to visualize any abnormal opening (sinus) in the body.



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