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Re: borntwice post# 4903

Sunday, 11/15/2009 8:41:43 AM

Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:41:43 AM

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fluoro tables are radiolucent...vs. radiopaque. and such tables are either made to be used in fixed fluoro suites... or there are mobile tables that go with mobile c-arms.

in surgery, the tables are also radiolucent but sometimes some of the stuff about them get in the picture...it just depends on which angle it's necessary for the operator of the c-arm to come in from.

CT tables or couches, of course, like MRI couches, move the patient into and ouf of the CT gantry or the MRI bore.

let's assume, i dunno for sure, that IMGG will use a similar approach... or they could also move the machine in to the region of interest and go from there, i dunno.

i do know that there are portable [cone beam] ct's and some of these are used in neurosurgery/brain imaging. i have posted links to some of these units in msg's here per articles in the american journal of neuroradiology while compiling my dd...