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IMAGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("imaging" is a kind of...):
pictorial representation; picturing (visual representation as by photography or painting)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imaging"):
X-radiation; X-raying (obtaining images by the use of X rays)
echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound (using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs)
PET; positron emission tomography (using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain))
magnetic resonance imaging; MRI (the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images)
radiology; radioscopy ((radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The ability to form mental images of things or events
Example:
he could still hear her in his imagination
Synonyms:
imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("imaging" is a kind of...):
representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imaging"):
mind's eye (the imaging of remembered or invented scenes)
vision (a vivid mental image)
envisioning; picturing (visual imagery)
dream; dreaming (a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep)
chimaera; chimera (a grotesque product of the imagination)
evocation (imaginative re-creation)
make-believe; pretence; pretense (imaginative intellectual play)
Derivation:
image (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb image
Context examples:
A physical exam, imaging, and other diagnostic tests can tell if you have it.
(Atherosclerosis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Upon administration, the bevacizumab moiety of bevacizumab-IRDye 800CW binds to VEGF and the fluorescent signal can be visualized using NIR fluorescence imaging (700-1,000 nm).
(Bevacizumab-IRDye 800CW, NCI Thesaurus)
The Molecular Imaging Shared Resource develops imaging reagents and methods that can be widely applied, develops imaging instruments, translates imaging methods to human studies, identifies biological pathways and organs for disease-specific change targeting.
(Molecular Imaging Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Monoclonal antibody 9.2.27 FAB binds with high affinity to melanoma cells and has potential use in immunodiagnostic imaging and the immunotherapy of melanoma.
(Monoclonal Antibody 9.2.27 F(ab), NCI Thesaurus)
Doctors diagnose multiple myeloma using lab tests, imaging tests, and a bone marrow biopsy.
(Multiple Myeloma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Simultaneous use of more than one imaging technique.
(Multimodal Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)
Conjugates such as this are also utilized as imaging and contrast agents for MRI and other imaging studies.
(Nanoparticle-targeted Drug, NCI Thesaurus)
Doctors diagnose nasal cancer with imaging tests, lighted tube-like instruments that look inside the nose, and biopsies.
(Nasal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
An imaging device is used to guide a thin wire with a hook at the end through a hollow needle to place the wire in or around the abnormal area.
(Needle localization, NCI Dictionary)
Also called 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging.
(MRSI, NCI Dictionary)
