1.1 Invention of Tomosynthesis in the Late 1930s
1.1 1930年代后期发明的断层合成技术
1.1.1 Concept: Shift and Add
Tomosynthesis addresses one of the primary weaknesses of conventional single-projection x-ray imaging, the superposition of objects in the image. This superposition may result in the obscuring of an object of interest and/or the production of pseudoobjects that mimic a disease (e.g., pseudomasses or a reduction in bone joint space). Tomosynthesis decreases superposition by generating slice images of the body from a series of projections taken at a variety of angles. In this sense, it is much like computed tomography (CT); however, instead of acquiring projections over 360° as in CT, the projections for tomosynthesis are acquired over a limited range of angles (e.g., 10° or 60°). The resulting tomosynthesis images have much better spa