Title :
Measurement of Soft Tissue Overlying Bone Utilizing Broad Band Energy Spectrum Techniques
Author :
Chan, Joseph L.-H. ; Alvarez, Robert E. ; Covski, Albert Ma
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, California 94305
Abstract :
A system is described for measuring the amount of bone and soft tissue in a path through any point in a radiograph. The basic information required is the transmitted intensity with two different source spectra. It is shown experimentally that this data may be used to accurately calculate the bone and soft tissue thicknesses.
Keywords :
Attenuation measurement; Biological materials; Biological tissues; Bones; Energy measurement; Equations; Noise measurement; Radiography; X-ray imaging; X-ray scattering;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1976.4328304
