What is 'CT' or 'CAT Scan'?

What is 'CT' or 'CAT Scan'?

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A CT scan is also known as a computer tomography and it is a very simple scan. It's time tested, you lay on a small table, it slides you through a cylinder that looks like a very very large donut. Multiple small pictures are taken almost in slices of whatever part of the body that is of interest. These are reformatted by a computer into what we call films. When we look at them we're able to differentiate bone from muscle, from blood vessel, from skin, from fat and this is essentially what a ct scan does it will show you the structures from any part of the body that you have interest in looking at.