RESPIRATORY IMAGING

Clinical Radiation Generators

Jun 19, 2016 by in RESPIRATORY IMAGING Comments Off on Clinical Radiation Generators

Clinical Radiation Generators 4.1. Kilovoltage Units Up to about 1950, most of the external beam radiotherapy was carried out with x-rays generated at voltages up to 300 kVp. Subsequent development…

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Quality of X-ray Beams

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Quality of X-ray Beams In Chapter 5, we described x-ray beam in terms of photon fluence and energy fluence. Such a description requires the knowledge of the number and energy…

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Production of X-rays

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Production of X-rays X-rays were discovered by Roentgen in 1895 while studying cathode rays (stream of electrons) in a gas discharge tube. He observed that another type of radiation was…

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Structure of Matter

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Structure of Matter 1.1. The Atom All matter is composed of individual entities called elements. Each element is distinguishable from the others by the physical and chemical properties of its…

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Consolidation, Collapse and Cavitation

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Practice Examples and ‘Fascinomas’

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The Systematic Approach

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Pleural Disease

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