Clinical usefulness of artronix brain scanner multiplanar coronal and sagittal brain images

Abstract

The Artronix 1,100 head scanner is a promising unit which allows reconstitution of the images in coronal and sagittal planes from the axial slice. The clinical usefulness of coronal and sagittal images thus obtained is illustrated and discussed.

How CT happened: the early development of medical computed tomography

“…Artronix used their computer expertise to introduce a number of features: concurrent scanning, reconstruction and display, thinner (3 mm) slice capability, and volumetric reformatting. 35,36 At around the same time, GE developed a scanner for breast imaging (CT/M), the first of which was installed at the Mayo Clinic in 1975. The patient was prone on the table with the breast immersed in a water bath; the system used a xenon ionization chamber with 127 channels and a 360-deg rotation time of 10 s. Among the clinical findings from the CT/M was the observation that the sensitivity for detecting breast malignancies was much higher after administration of contrast agents, 37,38 setting the stage for much more recent experience with MRI and other modalities.…”

Participation in university-based research centers: Is it helping or hurting researchers?

“…Sus trabajos fueron publicados en 2 artículos publicados en el Journal of Applied Physics en 1963 y 1964. 9 Artronix fue una empresa dedicada a proyectos sobre ciencias computacionales inicialmente ligada a la Universidad de Washington(Gulati, Dooley, & Young, 1978). Fue creada en 1970 y fue cerrada en 1978.…”