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Quality through and through 22/05/2007
 
A technology that is commonplace in medical fields has now found a use in the metrology area. Zeiss heralds it as “measurement revolution”, but it is a technology that most people will have heard of, although not in the mechanical component measurement sense. CT scanning, a 3D measurement technology well known and applied for many years in the medical area is now finding a use in another: Zeiss’ Metrotom is the vehicle, married to Zeiss Calypso software for interpretation of the captured data which includes both external visible as well as internal hidden detail.
 
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