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.
WAV files are files saved in the Waveform Audio File Format. This file format is the standard digital audio format that is used to store waveform data on computers. The WAV format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format. You can use WAV files to record audio files that can be saved with different sampling and bitrates.