The Location Of Brain Tumors With Ordinary Hospital Equipment

R. ,B . Guenther; C. W. Kerber; K. T. Smith; D. C. Solmon; S. L . Wagner

doi:10.1117/12.954026

1 February 1975 The Location Of Brain Tumors With Ordinary Hospital Equipment

R. ,B . Guenther, C. W. Kerber, K. T. Smith, D. C. Solmon, S. L . Wagner

Proceedings Volume 0047, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine III; (1975) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954026
Event: Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine III, 1974, Kansas City, United States

Abstract

For the past year or so we have been working on the problem of locating brain tumors with ordinary hospital equipment and without the introduction of contrast material. Eighteen radiographs are taken at 10° angles around the head, they are read by a densitometer, and the numerical method of Kacmarz (1) is used to produce horizontal cross sections at any desired level. In principle this is also the method used by the EMI scanner, but of course the use of ordinary hospital equipment changes the practical character of the problem considerably. So far we have completed three experiments, two of which will be described in detail along with some of the problems that were en-countered.

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R. ,B . Guenther, C. W. Kerber, K. T. Smith, D. C. Solmon, and S. L . Wagner "The Location Of Brain Tumors With Ordinary Hospital Equipment", Proc. SPIE 0047, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine III, (1 February 1975); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954026

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