IMAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imaging mean? 

• IMAGING (noun)
  The noun IMAGING has 2 senses:

1. the ability to form mental images of things or events

2. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

  Familiarity information: IMAGING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMAGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ability to form mental images of things or events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery

Context example:

he could still hear her in his imagination

Hypernyms ("imaging" is a kind of...):

representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imaging"):

mind's eye (the imaging of remembered or invented scenes)

vision (a vivid mental image)

envisioning; picturing (visual imagery)

dream; dreaming (a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep)

chimaera; chimera (a grotesque product of the imagination)

evocation (imaginative re-creation)

make-believe; pretence; pretense (imaginative intellectual play)

Derivation:

image (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

imaging; tomography

Hypernyms ("imaging" is a kind of...):

pictorial representation; picturing (visual representation as by photography or painting)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imaging"):

X-radiation; X-raying (obtaining images by the use of X rays)

echography; sonography; ultrasonography; ultrasound (using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs)

PET; positron emission tomography (using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain))

magnetic resonance imaging; MRI (the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images)

radiology; radioscopy ((radiology) examination of the inner structure of opaque objects using X rays or other penetrating radiation)

 Context examples 

A blood test or imaging test such as an x-ray can tell if you have a bone infection.

(Bone Infections, NIH)

Bispecific monoclonal antibodies are being studied in the imaging and treatment of cancer.

(Bispecific monoclonal antibody, NCI Dictionary)

Acting as a methyl donor, methionine C 11 is incorporated into macromolecules, where it serves as a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent for detecting tumors with high rates of protein synthesis.

(Methionine C 11, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of breast imaging test that is used to detect cancer cells in the breasts of some women who have had abnormal mammograms, or who have dense breast tissue.

(Miraluma test, NCI Dictionary)

The techniques used include radiotracer imaging/nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, optical imaging, ultrasound and others.

(Molecular Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Bispecific antibodies are being studied in the imaging and treatment of cancer.

(Bispecific antibody, NCI Dictionary)

Forms of bisphosphonates are also used to treat osteoporosis and for bone imaging.

(Biphosphonate, NCI Dictionary)

They use imaging tests to find aneurysms.

(Aneurysms, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

SSTR2 expression allows imaging of gene transfer into tumor cells using a radiolabeled somatostatin analogue.

(Ad5.SSTR/TK.RGD, NCI Thesaurus)

Subsequently, the A488 moiety can then be visualized by fluorescence-based imaging and the amount of PSMA-expressing tumor cells can be assessed.

(Anti-PSMA Monoclonal Antibody MDX1201-A488, NCI Thesaurus)