• DocumentCode
    909344
  • Title

    High-Speed Rotating-Drum X-Ray Beam Choppers for Line-Scan Dual-Energy Medical Imaging

  • Author

    Zeman, H.D. ; Hughes, E.B. ; Otis, J.N. ; Brown, G.S. ; Thompson, A.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Hansen Laboratories of Physics and Department of Physics, Stanford University
  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    515
  • Lastpage
    518
  • Abstract
    Two 30 cm diameter steel drums with four facets rotating at 1800 RPM have produced high-quality digital-subtraction radiographs by alternately blocking and transmitting dual-energy synchrotron X-ray beams. An eight times faster system with 16.5 cm diameter tenfaceted tin-plated aluminum drums rotating at 5760 RPM is presently under construction.
  • Keywords
    Aluminum; Biomedical imaging; Choppers; Crystals; Laboratories; Physics; Steel; Structural beams; Synchrotron radiation; X-ray imaging;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1986.4337155
  • Filename
    4337155