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11:13 Aug 13, 2010
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French to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Instruments / CT scan
French term or phrase:millimétrique (coupes millimétriques)
A CT scan of the chest is described as:
Scanner spiralé millimétrique
As far as I am aware, slices are nearly always measured in millimetres, so I am wondering whether this actually means "1 mm slices" as opposed to "millimetric slices", especially since nearly all ghits for the latter are by foreign authors.
Thanks Kevin, I really appreciate every data point on what people think is acceptable use of words, especially when delivered so affirmatively. I just wonder: when I go to google and search for "sub-millimetric astronomy", I get 57 results and a suggestion to try "submillimetre astronopy", with 12200 results. This gives me the impression that perfect English is avoided.
It is usual in English to give the exact thickness used. Anything with "millimetric" (apart from submillimetric, meaning less than 1 mm) doesn't sound English to my ear.
It would be very bizarre of them to indicate one particular thickness in this way. Bizarre opitons aside, they either indicate the rage of thicknesses they used (millimetre-range slice thickness -- unless it was a single experiment, in which case it would be a bizarre thing to say), or it applies to the resulution of each scan (millimetre-range resolution).
In other words, naming a vaule without giving a number normally indiactes a range of values around the unit named.
Wendy, I think if you read further, you might find the actual slice thickness named, and there may be several different thicknesses used, all in the millimetre range. They typically range from 0.1 to several mm. The phrase may also refer to the resulution of the scans. You will often hear abotu "sub-millimetre" scans, because the technology for that is relatively new.
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millimétrique (coupes millimetriques)
millimetric scale / increment (slices)
Explanation: or with a minimum increment of 1 mm
Drmanu49 Local time: 18:16 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English, French PRO pts in category: 179
Explanation: Thorax - Scanner thoracique basse dose en coupes millimétriques ...
Le scanner thoracique faible dose (à 80 mA) en coupes fines permet de diminuer de ... Low-dose Chest CT with millimetric thin slices: myth or reality? ... www.em-consulte.com/article/121502 - En cache - Pages similaires
xxxLionel_M Local time: 18:16 Specializes in field Native speaker of: French PRO pts in category: 4
La Haute Résolution Tomodensitométrique (HRCT) a fortement amélioré les performances de la Tomodensitométrie en particulier dans l'étude du parenchyme pulmonaire. La Haute Résolution Tomodensitométrique nécessite la pratique de coupes millimétriques, avec une matrice de reconstruction adaptée et un algorithme de reconstruction de type osseux. Il est possible actuellement, grâce au mode spiralé, de réaliser une Haute Résolution Volumique. Celle-ci s'obtient en réalisant une acquisition spiralée de 10 coupes millimétriques sur une hauteur de 10 mm (déplacement de la table de 1 mm par seconde, épaisseur de coupe de 1 mm, pitch = 1 ). Sur le petit volume ainsi acquis, il est alors possible d'appliquer deux algorithmes de reconstructions complémentaires : le Maximum Intensité Projection (MIP) qui sélectionne tous les pixels d'intensité maximale et le minimum Intensité Projection (mIP) qui sélectionne tous les pixels d'intensité minimum. Les fenêtres de visualisation (niveau et largeur) sont les suivantes : pour le MIP -450/1450 UH, pour le mIP -850/850 UH. Ce mode de reconstruction de l'image est dévoloppé par Général Electric sous l'appelation Multi Planar Volume Reconstruction (MPVR) et par Siemens sous l'appellation Sliding Thin Slices (STS).
SJLD Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 88
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