Orient yourself on an axial CT slice - Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring | Zoonk

Orient yourself on an axial CT slice - Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring | Zoonk

Orient yourself on an axial CT slice

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Medical teaching illustration of a chest represented as a horizontal axial cross-section slab, like one slice pulled from a loaf, showing a single CT-like slice with sternum at the front, spine at the back, dark lungs, ribs, and heart visible together; minimal labels: “axial slice” and “cross-section.”

An axial slice is a cross-section

An axial CT slice is a flat cut through the body, like slicing a loaf of bread crosswise. In the chest, one slice may show the sternum, spine, lungs, ribs, heart, and blood vessels all at once.