A portable X-ray apparatus with GaAs linear array

The widely growing interest to the digital diagnostics and analysis systems, that have many advantages in comparison with the traditional (film) systems, in data taking, data storing, and data transmitting, requires a new detection technology. One of the most promising system for medical radiography today is a scanning type apparatus with some linear array detectors. The constructed apparatus is a device with some semiconductor GaAs detectors as sensitive elements to form the image while scanning an object. GaAs detectors are the detectors of the direct transformation of X-ray radiation into the electrical. The present paper describes the results of the construction and testing of the portable X-ray unit for traumatic examination and orthopedic manipulation in stationer clinics and at the first aid in medicine of catastrophe.