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Tomography
Old fashioned tomograms used a moving x-ray source and flat detector to image at a certain depth in a patient. Most commonly this was used to image the kidneys. The most common tomograms used today are in cat scans, or computer assisted tomography. An x-ray source and multiple detectors spin around you, and the data is reconstructed by a computer into a slices, or cross-sections of your body.
How long it usually lasts:
Chronic (lasts years to lifelong)
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