LECTURE NOTES IN MEDICAL ENGINEERING

How X-rays form Images of the Body

X-Ray Detection

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Welcome back to medical engineering. Today we’ll look at the third part of X-rays and we want to discuss the actual detection of the X-rays on certain kinds of X-ray sensor technology. So now let’s have a look at our slides.

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So now we want to discuss the actual imaging and it is the last part in the chain.