Re: [OM] Some interesting digital x-ray image technology

[Sue Pearce [Permanent Link]]

The dental xrays use a sensor that is put in your mouth just as the film 
holder was.

Bill Pearce
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From: "Mark Marr-Lyon" <mark.marrlyon@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Some interesting digital x-ray image technology


> We use a very similar system here at work to take flash radiographs of
> explosively-driven experiments.  It sure beats film for turnaround time. 
> We
> also have systems that use CCD digital cameras to image scintillators that
> turn the x-rays to visible light.  I'd guess this is how the new dental
> imaging systems work too, but I don't know anything about them.  The place 
> I
> work at most of the time doesn't even use x-rays, instead it uses protons 
> to
> take 30-some radiographs at up to 6 million frames per second or so.
> http://lansce.lanl.gov/pRad/index.shtml
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "storage phosphor technology" (SPT) and operates in a vaguely similar
>> manner to storage phosphor display tubes used on oscilloscopes and
>> analog graphic display devices of many years ago.
>>
>>
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