Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment is used in the medical profession for the purpose of creating images that expose internal parts of the body.

Industry: Medical devices

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Graticule

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

An accessory installed in the interface mount that creates opaque marks on an exposed radiograph spaced at 1 cm intervals along the major axes, as measured at isocenter. The Ximatron graticule is ...

Graphical user interface

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A software interface designed to standardise and simplify the use of computer programs, as by using a mouse to manipulate text and images on a display screen featuring icons, windows, and menus.

Graphical field editor

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A component of user-interface software used to view and move MLC fields. A reference image may be employed as part of the shaping process.

Granularity

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The interval between time slots on the schedule screens. Therefore, also the minimum length of an appointment.

Gold beam matching

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A machine-to-machine spec applied in the factory to ensure that the beams are matched. As of April 2005, this is no longer being used.

Given dose

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The dose delivered by both primary and scattered radiation along the radiation beam axis at some level in the treatment field, generally at the depth of peak absorbed dose.