gantry
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French chantier (probably via Old Northern French gantier), from Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gantry (plural gantries)
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
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2015 August, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal[1], volume 47, Elsevier, , pages 118–127:
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In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 104) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.
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Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
framework of steel bars bridging over something
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supporting framework for a barrel
gantry scaffold — see gantry scaffold
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