ELECTRON BEAM CT

NAME : Kuber Neupane

COURSE: B.Sc. MIT 3rd year
DATE : 11.08.03
 INTRODUCTION
 Electron Beam CT often referred as
fifth Generation CT/ Cine CT utilizes
large electron gun as an X-ray
source composed of stationary
geometry.
 It was discovered in 1980

 The data acquisition geometry is a

fan beam X-rays produced by a
beam of electrons that scans several
stationary tungsten arcs/rings.
 Why EBCT?

• The X-ray source has to rotate by over 180 degree

in order to capture an image, it was unable to
capture dynamic movements that are quicker than
the rotation time.

• EBCT machine which is housed in a huge vacuum

tube lacks the mechanical movements thereby
allowing quick scanning with a single slice.
 CONSTRUCTION

• Electron gun (130-kilovolt (kV).

• Focussing and Deflecting coils.
• Four tungsten target rings.
• Stationary array of detectors
• Collimators
• Data Acquisition System
Principle
Electron Gun generates a beam which is
focused, accelerated and deflected by
Magnets.

The Beam moves rapidly to bombard the

tungsten target Rings and produce X-
rays.

These beam falls on stationary array of

detector.
 Features of EBCT

• Stationary Gantry and Stationary Detector system with no moving parts.

• Large arc of tungsten encircling the patient which lies opposite to the
detector ring.
 Radiation Dose with EBCT

• Instead of exposing the entire circumference of the body to the X-ray

beam, the X-ray beam enters from the back thereby preventing the
anterior structure (breast, thyroid) will receive a lesser radiation.
 COMPARISON
Conventional CT Electron Beam CT

X-ray tube is used Electron Beam is used

Mechanical movements No mechanical movements

Higher radiation Dose Lower dose.

 ADVANTAGES
• Acquire data in milliseconds.
• Decreased Acquisition time.
• Produce high-resolution images of moving organs (e.g., the heart) that are
free of artifacts caused by motion.
• Faster reconstruction Speed.
• Decreased radiation dose

DISADVANTAGES
• High cost
• Specially designed fir Cardiac CT
• Limited availability.
 REFERENCE

• COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY: DR EUCLID SEERAM

• THE ESSENTIAL PHYSICS OF MEDICAL IMAGING: JERROLD T. BUSHBERG
• BASIC RADIOLOGICAL PHYSICS: K THAYALAN
• TEXTBOOK OF RADIOLOGY PHYSICS: HARIQBAL SINGH