Equipment for spectral radiology
Abstract
A medical diagnostic method is described for radiologically examining a living patient for a predetermined spectral feature indicative of predetermined absorption edges of target atoms in the living patient. The method includes a reflective monochromator having a bent, radiation reflective crystal, a source of radiation for producing x-rays at an energy range suitable for medical diagnostics and a spectrum suitable for producing images of the inside of the patient. The method comprises: directing the source of radiation at the monochromator; supporting the living patient at a position to intercept x-rays reflected from the monochromator; angularly positioning the monochromator to reflectively focus at a point in the living patient a narrowed bandwidth of the radiation with a wavelength continuously, spatially and angularly variable over a bandwidth embracing the predetermined spectral feature; and measuring on that side of the patient opposite the monochromator the extent of radiation passing through the patient at a position where the spectrum of the radiation is spatially distributed.
- Inventors:
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7165633
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4624323
- Assignee:
- NOV; NOV-85-035399; EDB-87-025374
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 19 Sep 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; X-RAY EQUIPMENT; DESIGN; ABSORPTION; BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGES; INCIDENCE ANGLE; MONOCHROMATORS; POSITIONING; REFLECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVELENGTHS; X-RAY SOURCES; DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PROCESSING; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOLOGY; 550602* - Medicine- External Radiation in Diagnostics- (1980-)
Citation Formats
Okaya, Y. Equipment for spectral radiology. United States: N. p., 1986.
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Okaya, Y. Equipment for spectral radiology. United States.
Okaya, Y. Tue .
"Equipment for spectral radiology". United States.
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title = {Equipment for spectral radiology},
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abstractNote = {A medical diagnostic method is described for radiologically examining a living patient for a predetermined spectral feature indicative of predetermined absorption edges of target atoms in the living patient. The method includes a reflective monochromator having a bent, radiation reflective crystal, a source of radiation for producing x-rays at an energy range suitable for medical diagnostics and a spectrum suitable for producing images of the inside of the patient. The method comprises: directing the source of radiation at the monochromator; supporting the living patient at a position to intercept x-rays reflected from the monochromator; angularly positioning the monochromator to reflectively focus at a point in the living patient a narrowed bandwidth of the radiation with a wavelength continuously, spatially and angularly variable over a bandwidth embracing the predetermined spectral feature; and measuring on that side of the patient opposite the monochromator the extent of radiation passing through the patient at a position where the spectrum of the radiation is spatially distributed.},
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year = {1986},
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