Precision lead collimator construction

¹Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, UK.

Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement : an Official Journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics

|February 1, 1988

Abstract:

A novel fabrication technique is described based on stacking accurately drilled lead discs to form collimators for rectilinear scanning. This technique has proved successful for the construction of collimators across a wide range of imaging performance.

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