Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment

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

Industry: Medical devices

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Radiology equipment

bank

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Component of the multileaf collimator that consists of 60 leaves and that can move in the X direction. Two banks of leaves sitting on two carriages comprise the multileaf collimator.

energy switch

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A cylindrical plunger (probe) that moves into the accelerator-switch side cavity about 1/3 from the gun end, and thus turns the remaining 2/3 of the accelerator into a drift tube, where little ...

patient orientation indicator

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Green man image used in the Patient Verification application to indicate one of eight orientations.

carrousel

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A rotating assembly in the treatment head that places beam shaping elements, such as flattening filters and scattering foils, into the beam path.

integral dose

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A measure of the total energy absorbed by a patient or object during exposure to radiation.

preprocessing projections

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

One of three steps in the reconstruction of a CBCT dataset, which produces corrected 2D projections from raw 2D projections. In addition to normalization and logarithmic conversion, preprocessing ...

Treatment method with MLC whereby the the leaves move to a certain planned position with beam off. Then the beam is turned on for a predefined time and then the leaves move to the next position with ...