A collimator at the window of the X-ray tube housing influences the size and shape of the X-ray beam exiting the tube assembly and directed toward the patient body. The power source generates a suitable range of electrical energy and conducts it to the X-ray tube to generate an X-ray beam. Projectional radiography device is an assembly of a power source, X-ray tube, collimator, positioning mechanisms, X-ray sensitive receptor, and dose control tools.
OPEN SOURCE SCANNER DRIVERS SOFTWARE
iBEX is a unique open-source project bringing X-ray imaging devices’ software into the scope of the open-source community to reduce the X-ray scanners’ research effort, potentially increase the image quality, and cut down the production and testing costs of radiography devices. It provides tools to calibrate the device, integrate to health information infrastructure, acquire image, store studies on local storage, and send them to Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). iBEX is a freeware option for preclinical and early clinical testing of radiography devices. Independent of the X-ray sensor technology, iBEX could integrate with heterogeneous communication channels of digital detectors. Its extension mechanism makes the software adaptable for a wide range of digital X-ray imaging hardware combinations and provides capabilities for researchers to develop image processing plug-ins. A device-independent software package, named iBEX, is developed to accelerate the research and development efforts for X-ray imaging setups such as chest radiography, linear and multidirectional tomography, and dental and skeletal radiography.