imaging

[ im-uh-jing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Psychology. a technique in which one uses mental images to control bodily processes and thus ease pain or to succeed in some endeavor that one has visualized in advance.
Medicine/Medical. the use of computerized axial tomography, sonography, or other specialized techniques and instruments to obtain pictures of the interior of the body, especially those including soft tissues.

imaging

/ ĭm′ĭ-jĭng /

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.

Origin of imaging¹

First recorded in 1660–70, for the earlier sense “imagination”; image + -ing ¹

And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.

Body parts, food, and appliances seen with a thermal imaging camera.

Gillespie had forensic-imaging experts examine photos taken of the plane and its patched-over window at the Miami airport.

“NDSC is trying to decrease and change the appropriateness of imaging,” Bettmann said.

“Outpatient imaging actually subsidizes other medical departments,” Chris Sistrom, MD, MPH, Ph.D., told The Daily Beast.

In the public mind the Imagination is regarded as something connected with idle dreaming and fanciful mental imaging.

Can we not see Orient and Occident imaging themselves in their respective ideal products?

The mental imaging of colors may be materially aided by concentration upon physical material of the right color.

Exceptional visual and auditive imaging power are rarely present in the same individual.

He had amused himself, of late, by imaging his relation to her in the fable of the sun and the traveller.

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