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Week 2:
Radiographic Equipment
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Game Plan
 Identify generic
components of
the radiographic
equipment
 Deliverables etc
 DQ 1
 Quiz 1
 Delegate Current Event
Candidates
 Describe various
planes of x-ray
tube and table
movement
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X-Ray Machine Design
Features
 X-ray tube and x-ray
tube support
 Collimator assembly
 X-ray table
 X-ray generator and
control
 Upright image receptor
Fig. 8-3 Radiographic system with variable-height radiographic
table. The table is in a lowered position.
Radiographic Room
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X-ray Tube Housing
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X-RAY Tube Housing
• Lead and steel
• Absorbs stray
radiation
• Prevents x-ray
photons from
leaking from tube
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Collimator Knobs
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Collimator
• Attaches directly below the xray tube
• Projects a high-intensity light
field on the patient, which
represents the area of the xray field exposure
• Serves as a beam limiting
device
• Controls size and shape of the
x-ray field
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Cone collimator
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Radiographic Table
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• Tilting tables
– diagnostic and
fluoroscopic work
– 90 degrees in one
direction
– 15 – 30 degrees in
the other direction
– ancillary
equipment:
Tables
• footboard,
shoulder support,
handgrips,
compression
bands
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TABLE OR UPRIGHT
BUCKY TRAY
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The ‘bucky’ is like a drawer
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Intensifying screens
Image Receptors and Bucky tray
Film
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Image Receptors
Cassette Based
Cassette-less
1) Film /screen (FS)
1)Digital Radiography
(DR)
2) Computed Radiography
(CR)
 Indirect Capture
 Direct Capture
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CR Reader for Computed
Radiography image receptors
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Multiloader
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FLUOROSCOPY: Images in motion
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REMOTE ROOM
Conventional
Room
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FLUOROSCOPY
must wear shielding
while x-ray beam is on
Lead apron
Lead Curtain
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Tube Supports
 Designed to help technologists with various tube
locations for creative imaging.
 Tube suspension systems are available in 5 versions
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Tube
Movement
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Longitudinal
Transverse
Vertical
Angling or Rolling
Rotating
Telescoping
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CONTROL CONSOLE
 Gives the technologist
control of the xray
machine
 Technique selection
 Located OUTSIDE of
the Radiographic
Room
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The Control Console
• Set technical factors
(mAs & kVp)
• Make an exposure
• Only a legally
licensed individual is
authorized to
energize the console
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Other x-ray equipment
• Positioning phantoms
• Pixie
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Other x-ray equipement
• Positioning sponges
• Lead markers
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Positioning sponges
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Gonad shields
Lead Shields
Lead wrap arounds
Lead aprons
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Lead Gloves and Glasses
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Are x-ray machines
prisoner to one room???
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Mobile X-RAY
equipment
• Portables
– Take machine to
patient
– Still images
• C-arm
– Used in
interventional
procedures
– Used in surgery
– Dynamic images
– Fluoroscopy
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PORTABLE UNITS
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Trauma wrist done portable
- using positioning devices
Lead apron
TAPE
sponge
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Review
TUBE HOUSING
What is it made of?
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