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| author | Chavarria, Mario A. Huser, Matthias Blanc, Sebastien Monnin, Pascal Schmid, Jérôme Chênes, Christophe Assassi, Lazhari Blanchard, Hubert Sahli, Romain Thiran, Jean-Philippe Salathé, René P. Schönenberger, Klaus |
| author_facet | Chavarria, Mario A. Huser, Matthias Blanc, Sebastien Monnin, Pascal Schmid, Jérôme Chênes, Christophe Assassi, Lazhari Blanchard, Hubert Sahli, Romain Thiran, Jean-Philippe Salathé, René P. Schönenberger, Klaus |
| contents | This paper describes the development of a novel medical Xray imaging system adapted to the needs and constraints of low and middle income countries. The developed system is based on an indirect conversion chain: a scintillator plate produces visible light when excited by the Xrays, then a calibrated multi camera architecture converts the visible light from the scintillator into a set of digital images. The partial images are then unwarped, enhanced and stitched through parallel processing units and a specialized software. All the detector components were carefully selected focusing on optimizing the system s image quality, robustness, cost, effectiveness and capability to work in harsh tropical environments. With this aim, different customized and commercial components were characterized. The resulting detector can generate high quality medical diagnostic images with DQE levels up to 60 percent, at 2.34 micro Gray, even under harsh environments i.e. 60 degrees Celsius and 98 percent humidity. |
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| spellingShingle | X-ray imaging detector for radiological applications in the harsh environments of low-income countries Chavarria, Mario A. Huser, Matthias Blanc, Sebastien Monnin, Pascal Schmid, Jérôme Chênes, Christophe Assassi, Lazhari Blanchard, Hubert Sahli, Romain Thiran, Jean-Philippe Salathé, René P. Schönenberger, Klaus Medical Physics This paper describes the development of a novel medical Xray imaging system adapted to the needs and constraints of low and middle income countries. The developed system is based on an indirect conversion chain: a scintillator plate produces visible light when excited by the Xrays, then a calibrated multi camera architecture converts the visible light from the scintillator into a set of digital images. The partial images are then unwarped, enhanced and stitched through parallel processing units and a specialized software. All the detector components were carefully selected focusing on optimizing the system s image quality, robustness, cost, effectiveness and capability to work in harsh tropical environments. With this aim, different customized and commercial components were characterized. The resulting detector can generate high quality medical diagnostic images with DQE levels up to 60 percent, at 2.34 micro Gray, even under harsh environments i.e. 60 degrees Celsius and 98 percent humidity. |
| title | X-ray imaging detector for radiological applications in the harsh environments of low-income countries |
| topic | Medical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05048 |