POSTS TAGGED AS computerized tomography

New X-Ray Technology Shows Microfractures

X-Ray image
CT images appear in gray scale, and consequently are insufficient for displaying microfractures in bones.  However, researchers at the [MORE]

Small CT Machine for Point-of-Care

InReach Cone Beam CT System for Extremity Imaging
Since 1967 when Sir Godfrey Hounsfield introduced the first commercially viable CT scanner, [MORE]

AI, Automation, and Medical Imaging

CAT Scan Liver Cancer
In an international competition to develop machine learning applications for low-dose CT imaging, researchers at China’s Tsinghau [MORE]

World’s First Portable Whole-Body CT Scanner

Body Tom Portable CT
As this piece describes it: “BodyTom, the world’s first portable, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner, is a multi-departmental [MORE]

“Somatom Force” Tomography

Somatom Force Siemens
During World War II, British optical engineers developed dual aerial cameras that created 3-D pictures of the [MORE]

A Virtual Bronchoscope

Flexible Bronchoscope
Rigid bronchoscopy, which usually requires general anesthesia and some risk of damage to airways or vocal cords, can [MORE]