Embossed radiography utilizing energy subtraction.
Currently, it is difficult to carry out refraction-contrast radiography by using a conventional X-ray generator. Thus, we developed an embossed radiography system utilizing dual-energy subtraction for decreasing the absorption contrast in unnecessary regions, and the contrast resolution of a target region was increased by use of image-shifting subtraction and a linear-contrast system in a flat panel detector (FPD). The X-ray generator had a 100-microm-focus tube. Energy subtraction was performed at tube voltages of 45 and 65 kV, a tube current of 0.50 mA, and an X-ray exposure time of 5.0 s. A 1.0-mm-thick aluminum filter was used for absorbing low-photon-energy bremsstrahlung X-rays. Embossed radiography was achieved with cohesion imaging by use of the FPD with pixel sizes of 48 x 48 microm, and the shifting dimension of an object in the horizontal direction ranged from 100 to 200 microm. At a shifting distance of 100 mum, the spatial resolutions in the horizontal and vertical directions measured with a lead test chart were both 83 microm. In embossed radiography of non-living animals, we obtained high-contrast embossed images of fine bones, gadolinium oxide particles in the kidney, and coronary arteries approximately 100 microm in diameter.
Osawa
Akihiro
A
The 3rd Department of Surgery, Toho University School of Medicine, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. a.osawa@indigo.plala.or.jp
Watanabe
Manabu
M
Sato
Eiichi
E
Matsukiyo
Hiroshi
H
Enomoto
Toshiyuki
T
Nagao
Jiro
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Abderyim
Purkhet
P
Aizawa
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Tanaka
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Mori
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H
Kawai
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T
Ehara
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S
Sato
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S
Ogawa
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A
Onagawa
Jun
J
D009038:Motion; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D014965:X-Rays
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