Webster is a town in the northeast corner of Monroe County, New York, United States. The town is named after orator and statesman Daniel Webster. The population was 42,641 at the 2010 census. The town contains a village also named Webster.
Nevertheless, both CAT and CT scans refer to the same type of diagnostic examination. It just so happened that one term was used earlier, and the other was only recently coined as the more acceptable term. CT scan is the newer term, while CAT scan is the older term. The CT scan is completely known as âComputed Tomographyâ, while CAT scan, in full, is âComputed Axial Tomographyâ. In some references, CAT can also be the acronym for âcomputerized axial tomographyâ, but it still refers to the same thing.
A CT or CAT (short for Computed Tomography or Computed Axial Tomography) scanner is a piece of medical imaging equipment that uses x-rays to create images of 'slices' through the body (see figure 1). Figure 1: CT image slice.