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Computerized Axial Technology
 The limited accessibility and high cost of CAT-scan systems have restricted
their use to veterinary medical schools and to those hospitals that will scan
animals.and breathi
In CAT scans, a camera takes hundreds of X-ray pictures from various angles.
These images are fed into a computer and analyzed.
CAT scans are especially useful in localizing and defining the size and extent
of brain tumors (many are treatable, by the way, with surgery, radiation therapy,
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