Affiliations: Depanment of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325 | Department of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163 | Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 | Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 | Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
Abstract: The engineering aspects of a nine-channel digital radiographic system developed for bioimaging research, based on high gas pressure ionography and kinestatic principles, are presented. The research imaging system uses a pulsed x-ray beam which allows one to study simultaneously the ionic signal characteristics at 10 different ionization sites along the drift axis. This research imaging detector system allows one to investigate methods to improve the detection and image quality parameters as part of the development of a large scale prototype medical imaging system.
