Diagnostic radiology installation

Patent · Tue Oct 18 04:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5312562

Pfoiler, M; Tschunt, E

In an exemplary embodiment, there is provided a patient support, a radiation measuring arrangement including a radiation source which generates at least one fan-shaped radiation beam, penetrating the radiography subject, and a radiation receiver which has an array of detectors which are connected to a signal processing circuit, and means for generating relative movement between the patient support and the radiation measuring arrangement in a longitudinal direction of the support, for the generation of a shadow image several radiation directions are generated so that a plurality of intersection points of the radiation paths result within an image exposure region. The signal processing circuit determines the radiation transparency in the patient for every intersection point of a plane parallel to the patient support.

• Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
• Patent Number(s): US 4411012
• OSTI ID: 5312562
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

550602* -- Medicine-- External Radiation in Diagnostics-- (1980-)
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY
COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
DESIGN
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
IMAGE SCANNERS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MEDICINE
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATION SOURCES
RADIOLOGY
TOMOGRAPHY