Yosirou SEISYOU, Mikio OISHI*, Masayuki ZUGUCHI* and Yosiyuki HOSOKAI**
National Health Insurance Kawasaki Hospital
Radiography System with Cooled CCD Camera
(―― Tomographic Image of Extremities ――)
*Department of Radiological Technology, College of
Medical Sciences, Tohoku University
**Department of Radiology, Tohoku University Hospital
Our system consists of a General X-ray equipment and a digital radiography system with a cooled CCD camera. The system takes in 17pictures' amount of image data through a movement of the X-ray tube and produces a tomographic image of an arbitrary body layer by shifting picture cells. Though image data is taken in with a ready-made application program “Image ProPlus” the data and the image production are processed by our original program written with “Delphi”.
When we took pictures of hand, elbow, knee, ankle, hip and shoulder joints, we obtained rather clear images of apophysis and joint cavities in extremities. Though the X-ray tube was manually moved, the process such as intake of image data and production of images were automatically operated by our original program and most of the operation were smoothly carried out.