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im·ag·ing  (m-jng)

n.

1. The visual representation of an object, such as a body part or celestial body, for the purpose of medical diagnosis or data collection, using any of a variety of usually computerized techniques, such as ultrasonography or spectroscopy.

2. Psychology The use of mental images to influence bodily processes and to control pain, or to achieve a goal that one has visualized or imagined.

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imaging  (m-jng)

The creation of visual representations of objects, such as a body parts or celestial bodies, for the purpose of medical diagnosis or data collection, using any of a variety of usually computerized techniques. Within the field of medicine, important imaging technologies include compuertized axial tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	imaging - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" imagery, mental imagery, imagination representational process - any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else mind's eye - the imaging of remembered or invented scenes; "I could see her clearly in my mind's eye" vision - a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death" envisioning, picturing - visual imagery dream, dreaming - a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" chimaera, chimera - a grotesque product of the imagination evocation - imaginative re-creation make-believe, pretense, pretence - imaginative intellectual play
	2.	imaging - (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body tomography pictorial representation, picturing - visual representation as by photography or painting X-raying, X-radiation - 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 positron emission tomography, PET - 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 radioscopy, radiology - (radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques