title: An auxiliary CT tabletop for radiography at the time of CT.
abstract: An auxiliary CT tabletop was designed and manufactured such that radiographic images might be acquired, with use of a ceiling-mounted X-ray tube, without removing the patient from the CT table. The tabletop required no modifications to the original CT table housing and did not produce artifacts in the CT images. Radiographs obtained with the overhead X-ray tube and auxiliary tabletop demonstrated image quality equivalent to traditional radiographs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. mccollough.cynthia@mayo.edu
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: McCollough
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Daly
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: LeRoy
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014567:Urography / Q000295:instrumentation*