Abstract: Extraneous signals or artifacts are reduced in a multiple measurement noise reducing system such as an X-ray imaging system by processing a plurality of measurements to obtain a first image signal of an object representing a desired parameter such as a blood vessel, processing the plurality of measurements to provide a second image signal having increased signal-to-noise, low pass filtering the first image signal, high pass filtering the second image signal, and then combining the two filtered signals. The filter frequencies are varied in response to the presence of artifacts to minimize effects of the artifact on the combined signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multiple measurement multiple energy X-ray imaging system in which a plurality of measurements are processed to provide a first image signal representing a desired parameter of an object and in which the plurality of measurements are processed to provide a second processed image signal having greater signal-to-noise ratio than the first processed image signal but in which extraneous artifacts may be introduced into the signal. The spatial location of edges of the extraneous artifacts are determined. The first processed image signal and the second processed image signal are combined to provide an improved image signal except at the spatial locations of the extraneous artifacts where the first processed image signal is used for the image signal thereby eliminating the extraneous artifact from the displayed image.

Abstract: An X-ray stereoscopic cinematography apparatus including an X-ray tube having at least a pair of focal spots from which X-rays are irradiated independently at an object under study to produce an X-ray image thereof, an image intensifier for converting the X-ray image to a corresponding optical image, and an optical system device for selectively distributing the optical image to first and second cinecameras. The optical system device includes a first half-mirror having a reflection rate of approximately fifty percent, a second half-mirror having a comparatively low transmission rate and an entire reflection mirror, the half-mirrors and the entire reflection mirror being separately positionable in a first position to reflect the optical image or a second position out of the light path of the optical image to distribute the optical image to the first and second cinecameras.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic generator has a high voltage means to supply energy to an x-ray tube and a high voltage regulating means housed in a common oil-filled tank.

Abstract: In illustrated laminographic embodiments, longitudinal body layers are scanned by arranging individual x-ray tubes along a path or surface parallel to the body layer. The intensity of each conical beam focused on the body layer may be individually selected according to the absorption of the associated beam path through the body, for the sake of a fluoroscopic image of uniform brightness. For scanning either longitudinal or transverse body layers, a stationary detector may be utilized, sequentially activated conical or thin fan-shaped beams impinging on respective sets of time-shared detector locations to provide sets of measured values identified with the respective beams.