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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.

Contributors in Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment

bgm-mod node

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

BGM Modulator controller, one of five subnodes on the BGM printed circuit board (PCB).

extended

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Refers to the direction that the leaves take when moving toward beam center line. Opposite of retracted.

extended gantry rotation

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Normally the gantry is not allowed to rotate past the 0o point on the Varian scale (180o on the IEC), in which the treatment head is at the bottom of its travel arc. In extended mode, however, it is ...

liters per second

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Measurement unit for pump speed of Klystron, Electron Gun, and Accelerator vacuum pumps.

picoblaze processor

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

FPGA embedded digital processor (8-bit, assembly language) processor on the BGM subsystem controller board.

technique

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The type of clinical treatment or imaging procedure, to include Fixed Gantry, Arc, Total Body, HDTSE (high-density total skin electrons), Setup, KV Image, MV Image, Port Film, Fluoroscopy, and Cone ...

extended imager

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Position of an imager arm where the arm is perpendicular to the beam, ready for imaging.

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