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Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment is used in the medical profession for the purpose of creating images that expose internal parts of the body.

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Radiology equipment

focus film distance

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Distance from focal spot to the plane of the film measured on central axixs.

interface mount

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The topmost mount of the accessory subsystem, permanently attached to the collimator. The interface mount contains slot 1 used for trays and wedges, and an attachment point just below slot 1, for the ...

hounsfield units

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans.

volume percentages of dose

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

In the VariSeed 7. 0 user documentation, when discussing the study summary report and dosimetric quality paramters, D-values are referred to as "dose percentages of volumes" and V-values are referred ...

configuration file

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A file containing settable parameters that configure a subsystem’s software and applicable hardware, and that is used by the software during runtime.

asphyxiation

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Hazard due to electrical fire in treatment room.

buncher

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

1) The input resonant cavity in a klystron or linear accelerator. 2) Steering coils that guide the injected electrons down the radiation beam axis of the accelerator structure. The supply current to ...

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