[sci.med] Strange Hardware request: X-ray print digitizers

uhley@tybalt.caltech.edu (John Uhley) (03/04/89)

Does anyone know of a box which will take an X-ray print (the kind you
get when you break a bone) and digitize it?

	Thanks...

		John

		uhley@tybalt.caltech.edu

karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (03/06/89)

In article <9898@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> uhley@tybalt.caltech.edu
(John Uhley) wrote:

>Does anyone know of a box which will take an X-ray print (the kind you
>get when you break a bone) and digitize it?

I worked on such a device a few years ago.  We used an Eikonix Image
Digitizer to digitize autoradiographs, 512 by 512 by 8 bits deep.
This device uses a 512-element linear CCD array that steps mechanically
across the projected image.  We had a fancy light source set up
to illuminate transparencies.

A friend digitizes microscope images from a video signal.  He can
digitize movies in real time, until he runs out of memory to store
the images.  Only five or six bits deep, though.

	Chuck Karish	karish@denali.stanford.edu
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