5. GANTRY
•The gantry is the
'donut' shaped.
• It houses the
components
necessary to produce
and detect x-rays to
create a CT image.
• The x-ray tube and
detectors are there.
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• Several other CT scanner geometries which
have been developed and marketed do not
precisely fit the above categories.
17. SO CALLED 5TH GENERATION
• Use: for cardiac
tomographic imaging
“cine CT”
• No moving parts to this
scanner gantry
• It is capable of 50 -
millisecond scan times
and can produce 17 CT
slices/second
• stationary/stationary
geometry
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• Allowed 3D image acquisition within a single
breath hold
