I am doing a second iteration of a clinical Chiropractic intensified X-ray
system. The proof of concept system, which I used for 5 years, used a 9
inch Toshiba image intensifier and a Roper $cientific SenSys cooled 12 bit
CCD camera giving 500 x 700 pixel images.
The system under development will use a larger intensifier, 12 inch
diameter, and a Starlight Xpress Superstar 16 bit 2000 by 3000 approx.
pixels. To escape the problems created by proprietary software, mostly
security key failures, I hope to use ImageJ in one of its dialects. I have
seen uManager, MBFImageJ, and FIJI.
While I need to generate a signal when the camera is triggered to set off
the X-ray generator, analogously to the microscope controls in uManager,
that distribution is devoted to commercial products, and is way overkill for
the single logic level settable from within the program that my system
requires.
Because of the substantial documentation, MBFImageJ has received the bulk
of my attention, but it seems to lack the separable overlay feature of FIJI,
which seems appropriate for making marks and annotations on the images,
while still being able to inspect the unmarked image.
I need a version which includes an acquisition and store module for camera
control, including control of a bit in the parallel printer interface to
provide X-ray generator triggering, the background subtract, flat field and
dark frame correction routines of MBFImageJ, and the overlay function of
FIJI.
I am not sure where to start, and wish I had not bagged programming
shortly after standing in line with a deck of Hollerith cards, waiting on an
IBM 1620, which lacked a hardware ADD function. Oh, Well.
The application provides the images from which a precise analysis of the
mechanics of a person's neck, particularly the joint between the skull and
the Atlas, top of the neck. Reducing the exposure in adequately imaging the
structures is the primary goal of the project.
If the resolution of the software issue is going to require significant
skills in the JAVA , ImageJ programming realm, I may be sunk unless there is
a Bay Area programmer who will trade for Chiropractic care.
bob Woolery, DC
stateoftheartchiro.com
326 deAnza dr
Vallejo, CA 94589
(707) 557-5471
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