A NEW CASSETTE HOLDER USEFUL FOR CHEST AND JOINT OF INFANT

Abstract

It is difficult to get a well positioned X-ray picture of infant. Recently, it is reported by Toyono and Kato, that there are no difference in results between the erect positioned P-A and horizontal positioned A-P in infant chest X-ray picture. Standing these reports, here, a new cassette holder is reported. Using this cassette holder, one can easily get the well positioned picture and the moving of infant may be reduced by taking sway of the pain of infant due to the cassette edges. 1) This holder has a hollow place which makes about infant form that sheated the soft matress, and the cassette is settled at more hollowed place. 2) Fixing the basic lines of cassette holder and the X-ray table, one can exclude the procedure of positioning of X-ray tube and sizing of the shutter. 3) The radiation field size makes to be minimum it easily, so the radiation hazard to the infant become minimum.