Five-Second Fan Beam CT Scanner

A. C.M. Chen; W. H. Berninger; R. W. Redington; R. Godbarsen; D. Barrett

doi:10.1117/12.965426

23 December 1976 Five-Second Fan Beam CT Scanner

A. C.M. Chen, W. H. Berninger, R. W. Redington, R. Godbarsen, D. Barrett

Proceedings Volume 0096, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine V; (1976) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965426
Event: Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine V, 1976, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

To expand the medical utility of X-ray Computerized Tomography System to the entire body, the system must be capable of high-speed scan to minimize the effect of voluntary and involuntary body motion. High speed (5 sec.) and fan beam geometry in which the x-ray measurements are made by a continuous rotating scanner with simultaneous data acquisition per projection appears to be an optimum technical approach in terms of performance, reliability and producibility. The technical issues of x-ray physics, dosage, scanner and computing system will be discussed in this paper.

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A. C.M. Chen, W. H. Berninger, R. W. Redington, R. Godbarsen, and D. Barrett "Five-Second Fan Beam CT Scanner", Proc. SPIE 0096, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine V, (23 December 1976); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965426

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