C-Arm is the basic name of x-ray imaging equipment, which is based on an x-ray and an electronic image detector.
Such equipment is utilized in angiography rooms, laboratories and fluoroscopy rooms.
The C-Arm itself is a large arc bearing an X-ray tube at one point and an image detector at the other point.
The equipment can be adjusted around the patient to the required position for capturing the images.
Though, the C-Arm equipment is an integrated system of various main C-Arm divisions.
The C-Arm part is either floor mounted or ceiling suspended and can be moved, turned or angulated to allow convenient degrees of freedom as much as possible.
This C-arm division should be sturdy and steady, simply moved and equally balanced.
Though, it can be manually moved in all directions, it is usually automatically controlled.
The load, which is carried by this C-Arm division, is very heavy: the x-ray which produces the radiation, and the image booster which is also a major C-Arm part.
In advanced equipment, this C-Arm can be restored by a flat panel detector.
The x-ray tube and its assemblage is the C-Arm part, which produces x-rays.
This part is high power equipment, which emits a lot of heat.
The image intensifier is really a crucial part seen in the earlier systems.
This part is mainly a vacuum tube with a huge input screen, which is sensitive to x-ray photons and produces electrons.
The electrons are hastened by the electrostatic field inside the tube and are centered on a small screen, which replaces the electron flow with a little visibly bright image.
The flat panel detector is the advanced C-Arm part swapping the image intensifier.
It is moderately small and its productivity fits advanced electronic systems.
The generator is the high voltage, high power C-Arm point.
It is a source of direct current, which strengthens the x-ray tube.
These are high frequency generators and occupy less space.
Automatic collimation through utilizing shutter and iris collimators allow C-Arm divisions to reduce the x-ray dose to the patient and the operator.
X-ray switching C-Arm part controls on and off phases of the exposure.
A dedicated digital image processor is used with the chosen programs.
This C-Arm part can give a lot to the diagnostic worth of the image.
These fixed x-ray systems are designed to perform advanced processing of the locally attained or imported x-ray images using PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System).