How do you address scatter in x-ray imaging?
The Problem with Current X-Ray Imaging Technology
All flat panel detectors in volumetric x-ray imaging systems are subject to the effects of scattered x-rays, leading to degraded low contrast visualization and quantitative accuracy. As these devices become more widely used, it is important to identify new approaches for improving image quality and precision.
Volumetric x ray imaging is hampered by contamination from scattered x-rays, which can be an order of magnitude greater than the useful primary rays themselves. Without intelligent mitigation strategies to reduce these contaminant x-rays, accurate quantification and low contrast detection remain just out of reach.
M2 Technologies’ Clarity X Platform Mitigates Scattered X Rays
M2's Clarity X brings the way medical imaging professionals diagnose and treat their patients into the next generation utilizing an innovative two-dimensional antiscatter grid design combined with state-of-the-art data correction algorithms.
Proprietary Antiscatter Grid
Clarity X’s antiscatter grid enhances x-ray imaging experiences for x-ray technicians and physicians. How? We use a proprietary 2D array of razor thin, radiopaque grid walls strategically aligned towards the x ray source. This unique design dramatically reduces scattered x-rays by up to 95%.
M2 Tech’s proprietary grid leverages the most sophisticated metal additive manufacturing process to deliver unprecedented results, including higher levels of targeted scatter fluence reduction and primary x-ray transmission than any other antiscatter grid presently available. In laboratory testing, Clarity X performed 4X - 7X better than the other solutions.
What about the scattered x-rays the grid doesn’t capture ?
We have developed the most advanced residual scatter correction algorithms designed to protect image quality from the small amounts of scattered x-rays that evade the antiscatter grid. We are leading the industry having developed the only combined hardware/software approach.
By combining our 2D antiscatter grid with our advanced scatter correction algorithms, we're able to:
- raise the bar for low contrast visualization in volumetric x-ray images
- achieve unprecedented levels of accuracy with Hounsfield units
- significantly reduce image artifacts
Use Cases:
- CBCT for radiation therapy
- Dental and craniofacial CBCT
- Intraoperative x-ray imaging systems
- C-arm based x-ray imaging
- Veterinary imaging
- Nondestructive testing
- Security imaging
