By Mayo Clinic Staff. You can have a CT scan done in a hospital or an outpatient facility. CT scans are painless and, with newer machines, take only a few minutes. The whole procedure typically takes about 30 minutes.
Part of the Computing fundamentals glossary: A Wave file is an audio file format, created by Microsoft, that has become a standard PC audio file format for everything from system and game sounds to CD-quality audio. A Wave file is identified by a file name extension of WAV (.wav). Used primarily in PCs, the Wave file format has been accepted as a viable interchange medium for other computer platforms, such as Macintosh. This allows content developers to freely move audio files between platforms for processing, for example.
The WMV file extension is a video file based on the Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format and compressed with Windows Media compression. It is the same as to an .ASF file and has video encoded with one of Microsoft's Windows Media Video (WMV) proprietary codec. Windows Media Audio (WMA) files are saved with a .WMA extension. Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 was the latest version of the Windows Media Player developed for Mac OS X, but Mac users can use Flip4Mac WMV, or the so-called Microsoft Windows Media Components for QuickTime, to play WMV files.