A study of the impact of x-ray tube performance on angiography system imaging efficiency

M Dehairs, H Bosmans… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
… This work compared the impact of x-ray tube performance and automatic dose rate … on
system imaging efficiency of two Siemens angiography systems: a Siemens Megalix x-ray tube

Effect of reduced x-ray tube voltage, low iodine concentration contrast medium, and sinogram-affirmed iterative reconstruction on image quality and radiation dose at …

WH Yin, B Lu, JB Gao, PL Li, K Sun, ZF Wu… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
x-ray tube voltage and iterative reconstruction allows for decreasing the iodine load and
effective radiation dose at CCTA while maintaining image quality. … in our study for effectiveness. …

Effect of radiographic techniques (kVp and mAs) on image quality and patient doses in digital subtraction angiography

NA Gkanatsios, W Huda, KR Peters - Medical physics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
imaging performance whilst ensuring that patient radiation dose is kept ALARA. In this study,
we investigated how changing x-ray tube voltage and input exposure to the imageefficient. …

Generalized performance evaluation of x-ray image intensifier compared with a microangiographic system

GK Yadava, IS Kyprianou, S Rudin… - Medical Imaging …, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… A total x-ray imaging system consists of an x-ray tube with a … somewhat realistic for
neurovascular angiography of cerebral … The GDQE is a measure of the absolute system efficiency

Radiographic techniques, contrast, and noise in x-ray imaging

W Huda, RB Abrahams - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
… the x-ray tube output (quantity) but increases x-ray beam … X-ray detection efficiencies in
most x-ray imaging systems … In digital subtraction angiography (DSA) imaging, one way to …

X-ray detectors in medical imaging

M Spahn - … , Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2013 - Elsevier
… different X-ray spectra, or the alternative and more dose-efficient … CT, consists of two X-ray
tubes and two detectors in the … for general X-ray, full-field mammography, angiography and …

Radiation dose and image quality of X-ray volume imaging systems: cone-beam computed tomography, digital subtraction angiography and digital fluoroscopy

J Paul, V Jacobi, M Farhang, B Bazrafshan, TJ Vogl… - European …, 2013 - Springer
… a single rotation of the tube-detector system; the patient can … system was upgraded and the
performance of the imaging … Recent AEC technique may be more efficient at reducing image

[PDF][PDF] Performance and pitfalls of diagnostic X-ray sources: an overview

R Behling - Medical Physics, 2016 - researchgate.net
X-ray tube housing assembly equipped with a rotor systemimage artifacts, optimize system
design and enable efficient … curve for an interventional angiography tube with tungsten coil …

Diagnostic X-ray sources—present and future

R Behling, F Grüner - … Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2018 - Elsevier
… required for high performance rotating anode X-ray tubes. … the low efficiency of conversion
of electrical power to X-ray … Small amounts of contrast agents like iodine (for angiography) …

Performance of X-ray imaging systems applied to intravenous angiography

SJ Riederer - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 1982 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… a system with the output of the X-ray tube, or tube current (mA) times time (sec), used to form
the image… thus most efficient use of detected X-ray statistics, would be obtained for temporal …