PHANTOM FOR USING RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has casing manufactured from rigid radiopaque and photopaque material filled with water and having metric radiopaque members. Hollow tubular system shaped as bronchial tree is mounted inside of the casing and balloon simulating heart operation manufactured from elastic flexible material and connected to corresponding microprocessor-controllable air pressure generators. The metric members are mounted on flexible membrane around the bronchial tree trunks. Beside that, the casing has pipe connecting the internal part of the casing to the ambient atmosphere. EFFECT: enabled dynamic blurriness processing in X-ray lung examination. 3 cl, 4 dwg