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Computed Radiography 1
Computed Radiography 1
Computed Radiography 1
Radiography
Computed Radiography
• a “cassette-based” system that uses a special
solid-state detector plate instead of a film
inside a cassette.
• The use of CR requires the CR cassettes and
phosphor plates, the CR readers and
technologist quality control workstation, and a
means to view the images, either a printer or
a viewing station.
Computed Radiography System
• Three major components
• Phosphor Imaging Plates
– To acquire x-ray image projections
• PIP Reader (scanner)
– To extract the electronic latent image
• Workstation
– For pre and post processing of the image.
Historical Perspective
• 1973 – George Luckey, a research scientist filed
a patent application titles Apparatus and
Method for Producing Images Corresponding to
Patterns of High Energy Radiation.
• 1975 – George Luckey patent (USD 3,859,527)
was approved and Kodak patented the first
scanned storage phosphor system that gave
birth to modern computed radiography.
Historical Perspective