Optimised tomography for clinical use.
A technique elaborated by the present authors (1974) for the establishment of optimum tomographic movements was applied to ear tomography in order to design a movement that is not too complex, but yielding good tomographic depiction. Such a movement was found to consist of a spiral of 5 revolutions. Modern engineering appears to allow such complex movements to be carried out with satisfactory stability within a reasonable exposure time.
D007758:Ear, Inner / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D009038:Motion; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014986:Xeroradiography