An apparatus that is used to create a tomogram. The machine allows for the movement of the film in one direction, while the source of radiation moves in an opposite direction to produce images at a targeted depth within the tissues.
An x-ray tube attached to a Bucky diaphragm by a rigid rod allowing rotation around a fixed point (fulcrum) during the radiographical exposure for tomography.
A radiographic technique that selects a level in the body and blurs out structures above and below that plane, leaving a clear image of the selected anatomy. This is accomplished by moving the x-ray tube in the opposite direction from the imaging device around a stationary fulcrum defining the plane of interest. Tube movements can be linear, curvilinear, circular, elliptical, figure eight, hypocycloidal, or trispiral.
A unique type of x-ray machine that captures images of various cross-sections or slices of the body.