Obtaining good. fusion splices is much easier today, due to continued improvements to the fusion splice equipment, procedures and. practices, in addition to the evolutionary improvements in controlling optical fiber geometries. As a result, losses.
In CT, the total amount of radiation incident on the patient, known as the DLP, is the product of the CTDIvol and scan length (in centimeters) and is measured in milligray-centimeters.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning combined with CTA is on the horizon for the detection of heart disease. PET scans are a form of nuclear medicine -- nuclear being the small dose of radioactive material you are injected with before the test (the radiation exposure is similar to that of a standard X-ray). As with CTA, PET involves a doughnut-like scanning device that takes the images.