Electron Beam Tomography - Future

Future

Whether the inherent sweep-speed advantage will maintain commercial viability of the EBT design remains unclear at this time. As of 2002, one major company owns and offers models in both competing designs, with engineering cross-pollination of techniques between the product design teams. As of 2005, it increasingly appears that the spiral CT designs, especially those with (b) 64 detector rows, (b) 3×360°/sec rotation speeds and designed for cardiac imaging, are largely replacing the EBT design from a commercial and medical perspective. However, EBT still offers sweep speeds of effectively 50×360°/sec rotation speeds and lower radiation exposure. The latest version of the EBT eSpeed offers a 33 ms sweep time.

While there are very few of these scanners in use, this technology represents the fastest commercial CT temporal resolution.

Medical testing : Medical imaging · Radiology · (ICD-9-CM V3 87–88, ICD-10-PCS B, CPT 70010–79999)
X-ray/
medical radiography/
Industrial radiography
2D

Medical: Pneumoencephalography · Dental radiography · Sialography · Myelography · CXR (Bronchography) · AXR / KUB · DXA/DXR · Upper gastrointestinal series/Small bowel follow-through/Lower gastrointestinal series · Cholangiography/Cholecystography · Mammography · Pyelogram · Cystography · Arthrogram · Hysterosalpingography · Skeletal survey · Angiography (Angiocardiography, Aortography) · Venography · Lymphogram
Industrial: Radiographic testing
3D / XCT

Medical: CT pulmonary angiogram · Cardiac CT · Abdominal and pelvic CT (Virtual colonoscopy) · CT angiography · CT head · pQCT · Spiral computed tomography · High resolution CT · Whole body imaging (Full-body CT scan) · Electron beam tomography

Industrial: Industrial CT Scanning
Other Fluoroscopy
MRI

MRI of brain and brain stem · MR neurography · Cardiac MRI/Cardiac MRI perfusion · MR angiography · MR cholangiopancreatography · Breast MRI

Functional MRI · Diffusion MRI
Ultrasound

Echocardiography / Doppler echocardiography (TTE · TEE) · Intravascular · Gynecologic · Obstetric · Echoencephalography · Transcranial doppler · Abdominal ultrasonography · Transrectal · Breast ultrasound · Transscrotal ultrasound · Carotid ultrasonography

Contrast-enhanced · 3D ultrasound · Endoscopic ultrasound · Emergency ultrasound (FAST · Pre-hospital ultrasound) · Duplex
Radionuclide
2D / scintigraphy

Cholescintigraphy · Scintimammography · Ventilation/perfusion scan · Radionuclide ventriculography · Radionuclide angiography · Radioisotope renography · Sestamibi parathyroid scintigraphy · Radioactive iodine uptake test · Bone scintigraphy · Immunoscintigraphy

full body: Octreotide scan · Gallium 67 scan · Indium 111 WBC scan
3D / ECT

SPECT (gamma ray): SPECT of brain, Myocardial perfusion imaging

PET (positron): Brain PET, Cardiac PET, PET mammography, PET-CT
Optical laser Optical tomography (Optical coherence tomography) · Confocal microscopy · Endomicroscopy
Thermography Breast thermography

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