1. Week 2: Radiographic Equipment

2. Game Plan Identify generic components of the radiographic equipment
Describe various planes of x-ray tube and table movement
Deliverables etc
DQ 1
Quiz 1
Delegate Current Event Candidates

3. 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.

4. Radiographic Room

5. X-ray Tube Housing

6. X-RAY Tube Housing Lead and steel Absorbs stray radiation
Prevents x-ray photons from leaking from tube

7. Collimator Knobs

8. Collimator Attaches directly below the x-ray tube
Projects a high-intensity light field on the patient, which represents the area of the x-ray field exposure
Serves as a beam limiting device
Controls size and shape of the x-ray field

9. Cone collimator

10. Radiographic Table

12. Tables Tilting tables diagnostic and fluoroscopic work
90 degrees in one direction
15 – 30 degrees in the other direction
ancillary equipment:
footboard, shoulder support, handgrips, compression bands
Tables
Tilting rooms are designed for both diagnostic and fluoroscopic work
Tilting models usually tilt to 90 degrees in one direction and 15 – 30 degrees in the other direction
Tilting models include ancillary equipment; footboard, shoulder support, handgrips, compression bands

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16. TABLE OR UPRIGHT BUCKY TRAY

17. The ‘bucky’ is like a drawer

19. Image Receptors and Bucky tray
Intensifying screens
Film

20. Cassette Based 1) Film /screen (FS) 2) Computed Radiography (CR)
Image Receptors
Cassette Based 1) Film /screen (FS) 2) Computed Radiography (CR)
Cassette-less
1)Digital Radiography (DR)
Indirect Capture
Direct Capture

21. CR Reader for Computed Radiography image receptors

22. Multiloader

23. FLUOROSCOPY: Images in motion

24. REMOTE ROOM
Conventional Room

25. FLUOROSCOPY must wear shielding while x-ray beam is on
Lead apron
Lead Curtain

26. Tube Supports
Designed to help technologists with various tube locations for creative imaging.
Tube suspension systems are available in 5 versions

27. Tube Movement Longitudinal Transverse Vertical Angling or Rolling
Rotating
Telescoping

28. CONTROL CONSOLE Gives the technologist control of the xray machine
Technique selection
Located OUTSIDE of the Radiographic Room

30. The Control Console Set technical factors (mAs & kVp) Make an exposure
Only a legally licensed individual is authorized to energize the console

33. Other x-ray equipment
Positioning phantoms
Pixie

34. Other x-ray equipement
Positioning sponges
Lead markers

35. Positioning sponges

37. Gonad shields
Lead Shields
Lead wrap arounds
Lead aprons

38. Lead Gloves and Glasses

39. Are x-ray machines prisoner to one room???

40. Mobile X-RAY equipment
Portables
Take machine to patient
Still images
C-arm
Used in interventional procedures
Used in surgery
Dynamic images
Fluoroscopy

41. PORTABLE UNITS

42. Trauma wrist done portable - using positioning devices
Lead apron
TAPE
sponge

48. Review

49. TUBE HOUSING
What is it made of?