title: Synchrotron radiation at the Photon Factory for non-invasive coronary angiography: experimental studies.
abstract: Synchrotron radiation available at the Photon Factory, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, provides a new X-ray source which is highly suitable for K-edge subtraction. This is due to its high intensity, its parallelism and its monochromaticity, available in a monochromator system. Experiments were performed using wiggler synchrotron radiation. Since the beam size is relatively-small for in-vivo imaging, a phantom coupled with a detector was moved horizontally using a scanning table. K-edge subtraction was successfully applied both to the coronary artery phantom filled with barium sulphate, and to rat angiography using iodine contrast material. The potential use and value of energy subtraction was successfully demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akisada
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hyodo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maruhashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Toyofuku
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suwa
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Takenaka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007455:Iodine; D008722:Methods; D008961:Models, Structural; D051381:Rats; D013382:Subtraction Technique
chemical_list: D007455:Iodine