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.
Such imaging studies include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray computed tomography (CT) and in the case of 'bone scans' nuclear medicine. However, a nuclear bone scan is a functional test: it measures an aspect of bone metabolism or bone remodeling, which most other imaging techniques cannot. The nuclear bone scan competes with the FDG-PET scan in seeing abnormal metabolism in bones, but it is considerably less expensive.