Multichannel radiography employing scattered radiation
US4495636A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 2, 1981 |
| Grant date | Jan 22, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 2, 2001 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2223/612
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A diagnostic imaging system and process permits construction of an image of an area of an interfacial surface within the body of a subject, such as the heart-lung interface. The imaging system includes radiation source means for generating a shaped beam of penetrating radiation for illuminating the interfacial surface. Radiation scattered from tissue at the interface is detected by a plurality of directional radiation detectors which can be automatically positioned and oriented so that their fields of view intersect the beam of radiation and the interfacial surface.
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