Medical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation

ISBN-13: 9784431684879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str.

Masami Ando;Chikao Uyama

Opis

Synchrotron radiation has important applications in medical imaging, especially in such areas as intravenous coronary angiography, mammography, bronchography, and monochromatic computed tomography. In medicine, phase contrast imaging is a particularly exciting development, with the potential to become a new X-ray eye in the 21st century. To discuss these and related topics, medical doctors met with physicists and other researchers in Haga, Japan, in August 1997. This volume contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Medical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation (HAGA 97), where practitioners from the world of medicine could communicate directly with researchers from the world of physics to discuss practical and theoretical aspects of medical imaging with synchrotron radiation. This volume, presenting the outcome of the discussions and presentations in the workshop, is a valuable resource to all who are interested in medical imaging and physics.

Spis treści

Opening Remark.- Overview.- Synchrotron Radiation Applications in Medical Research.- A Perspective View of the Medical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Japan.- Clinical Application in Practice or in Approach.- Medical Activities of Synchrotron Radiation in Japan — Intravenous Coronary Cineangiography.- Intravenous Coronary Angiography with Dichromography Using Synchrotron Radiation.- First Tests on Substraction Bronchography Study at the Angiography Station of the VEPP-3 Storage Ring.- Synchrotron Radiation Coronary Angiography with Aortographic Approach.- Synchrotron Radiation Micro-angiography Using an Avalanche-Type High-definition Video Camera.- Imaging.- Perspective for Medical Applications of Phase-Contrast X-Ray Imaging.- New Methods of X-ray Imaging Based on Phase Contrast.- Diffraction Enhanced X-ray Imaging.- Phase Contrast Imaging in the Field of Mammography.- Mammographic Imaging Using a Harpicon Based Image Detector.- Specific Element Imaging by Monochromatic X-Ray CT Using Synchrotron Radiation.- Synchrotron Radiation Computed Tomography Applied to the Brain: Phantom Studies at the ESRF Medical Beamline.- Iodine-Filter Imaging System and Intraaortic Fluorescent-Screen Harpicon Imaging System for Coronary Angiography.- Development of a Monochromatic X-ray Computed Tomography with Synchrotron Radiation to Detect Tracer Materials.- Contrast Analysis in Coronaries Images Using 2D Monochromatic X-rays for Optimized Dedicated Synchrotron IVCA System.- Sources and Instruments.- Conceptual Design of a Medical Application Radiation Source.- Proposal of Very Low Cost 5–6 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Ring for Medical Use Using Permanent Magnets and Aluminum Beam Pipe without Flanges and Bellows.- Fluorescent X-ray Source for Diagnostic Imaging Studies.- Remarks on the Role of Multilayer Optics and Short Period Insertion Devices for Medical Imaging Sources and Applications.- Beamlines for Medical Applications on the SPring-8.- Proposal of a New Beamline AR-NW2, Dedicated to Medical Applications at the AR.- Scanning Slit Radiography System with Synchrotron Radiation.- Accuracy of Attenuation Coefficients in Monochromatic X-ray CT.- Reconstruction Algorithm for Fluorescent X-Ray CT and Its Application to the Actual Data by Synchrotron X-ray.- Closing Remark.- Workshop Programme.- Organization.- Acknowledgements.- Participant List.- Key Words List.