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CT Scanning OrthoFRACS

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Description: Created by Godfrey Hounsfield in 1972. He won a Nobel prize in 1979.
The CT image is created by revolving an XR tube around the patient at high speed, opposite a stationary ring of detectors of very high sensitivity.
  Because of the sensitivity of the detectors a wide range of densities can be obtained.
  The XR beam is fan shaped.
The range of densities in a normal film is around 20. In a CT image it is 2000.

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Added: Sun Sep 27 2009