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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Radiology equipment

Centerspine

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Centre steel support member at one end of the treatment couch top. Enables posterior oblique treatments to be performed when radiolucent (tennis racket) panels are installed.

Cbct reconstructor

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Computer workstation that reconstructs projections from the kV imaging system into the 3D volumetric datasets that comprise a CBCT (cone beam computer tomography) image. Also known as CR.

Cart

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Computer Aided RadioTherapy: a consortium that was formed in the 80s in Scandinavia with the aim to standardise radiotherapy in the Nordic countries.

Carrousel

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

A rotating assembly in the treatment head that places beam shaping elements, such as flattening philtres and scattering foils, into the beam path.

A moveable structure of the multileaf collimator (MLC) on which a bank of tungsten leaves is mounted. The MLC has two banks, each of which is mounted on one of two carriages. The carriage moves the ...