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Computer Tomography is a specialized X-ray imaging technique. It may be performed "plain" or after the injection of a "Contrast Agent". CT creates the image by using an array of individual small X-Ray sensors and a computer. 

Computer tomography provides cross-sectional images of the head,  the abdomin, the chest, including the heart and great vessels. Cardiac tomography is used to evaluate aortic disease (such as aortic dissection), cardiac masses and pericardial disease.

Computerized axial tomographic scan is useful to examine how the brain looks, functions and gets its blood supply. This test can outline the affected part of the brain and help define the problem a stroke creates.

CT provides clinically relevant anatomic and functional information, is relatively noninvasive, and has very low short- and long-term risks.