Jean-Marie Parel,Fabrice Manns,David S. Robinson,Peter Milne,David B. Denham,Xochitl Gonzalez-Cirre
申请号：
US13289709
公开号：
US08606346B2
申请日:
2011.11.04
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
A method of thermally inducing and monitoring changes to localized regions of tissue by illuminating a volume of tissue with a first beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the first beam that passed through the volume, generating a first image signal from the portions of the first beam detected, applying heat to at least a localized region of tissue within the volume after the illuminating and detecting, illuminating the volume with a second beam of X-rays, detecting portions of the second beam that passed through the volume during the illuminating with the second beam, generating a second image signal from the portions of the second beam detected, and generating a difference image signal based upon a comparison of the first and second image signals. The difference image signal provides information of changes in X-ray attenuation by localized regions of tissue within the volume due to the application of heat.
