Cone-beam micro-CT system based on LabVIEW software.

Construction of a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) system for laboratory research usually requires integration of different software and hardware components. As a result, building and operating such a complex system require the expertise of researchers with significantly different backgrounds. A...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 296 - 306
Autores principales: Ionita CN, Hoffmann KR, Bednarek DR, Chityala R, Rudin S
Formato: algorithm diagnostic images pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2008
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          Ionita CN
          Hoffmann KR
          Bednarek DR
          Chityala R
          Rudin S
        affil: Toshiba Stroke Research Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, BRB Bldg., Rm. 445, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA. cnionita@buffalo.edu
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          Radiographic Image Enhancement
          Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
          Software
          Tomography, X-Ray Computed Methods
          Equipment Design
          Graphical User Interface
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted
          Research, Radiologic Technology
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      ab: Construction of a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) system for laboratory research usually requires integration of different software and hardware components. As a result, building and operating such a complex system require the expertise of researchers with significantly different backgrounds. Additionally, writing flexible code to control the hardware components of a CBCT system combined with designing a friendly graphical user interface (GUI) can be cumbersome and time consuming. An intuitive and flexible program structure, as well as the program GUI for CBCT acquisition, is presented in this note. The program was developed in National Instrument's Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) graphical language and is designed to control a custom-built CBCT system but has been also used in a standard angiographic suite. The hardware components are commercially available to researchers and are in general provided with software drivers which are LabVIEW compatible. The program structure was designed as a sequential chain. Each step in the chain takes care of one or two hardware commands at a time; the execution of the sequence can be modified according to the CBCT system design. We have scanned and reconstructed over 200 specimens using this interface and present three examples which cover different areas of interest encountered in laboratory research. The resulting 3D data are rendered using a commercial workstation. The program described in this paper is available for use or improvement by other researchers.
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