Unit 2 Listen and Read:
Metrology and biomedicine. Application of biomedical metrotomography
Computed tomography scanners (or CT scanners) are very popular medical equipments for tens of years. Its invention initiated a revolution in diagnostic technology by allowing us to look inside a person and obtain a very clear anatomical image without violating the outer surface of his body, in other words, non-invasively. Just a few years ago this technology found way to the area of industrial applications and especially to geometrical metrology. Metrotomography is a term that consists of words metrology and tomography. Specific prosthetic and biomedical experiments were realized by Metrotom 1500 (Carl Zeiss, Germany) at the Technology center of computed tomography, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Automation and Measurement, Technical University in Kosice. Today industrial CT is on its way to become a major tool of industrial quality control in high-tech branches, not only for material testing but for geometry analysis as well.