Review
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2017.
World J Respirol. Mar 28, 2017; 7(1): 1-16
Published online Mar 28, 2017. doi: 10.5320/wjr.v7.i1.1
Figure 1
Figure 1 The process of computed tomography scanning. X-rays are passed from the source through the subject laid on the table, and received by the detectors that rotate 360° around the patient. The reduction of the intensity of the XR beam passed through the subject is calculated as an attenuation co-efficient, which from all the slices is reformatted into a digital image.