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Anatomy, Cross-Sectional

"Anatomy, Cross-Sectional" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Descriptive anatomy based on three-dimensional imaging (IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL) of the body, organs, and structures using a series of computer multiplane sections, displayed by transverse, coronal, and sagittal analyses. It is essential to accurate interpretation by the radiologist of such techniques as ultrasonic diagnosis, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, and computed tomography (TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED). (From Lane & Sharfaei, Modern Sectional Anatomy, 1992, Preface)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Anatomy, Cross-Sectional" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Anatomy, Cross-Sectional" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 68 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 1998 and 2003 and 2006 and 2009
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.