Jean Dubousset, Georges Charpak, Irène Dorion, Wafa Skalli, François Lavaste, Jacques Deguise, Gabriel Kalifa, Solène Ferey
Close collaboration between multidisciplinary specialists (physicists, biomecanical engineers, medical radiologists and pediatric orthopedic surgeons) has led to the development of a new low-dose radiation device named EOS. EOS has three main advantages: The use of a gaseous X-ray detector, invented by Georges Charpak (Nobel Prizewinner 1992), the dose necessary to obtain a 2D image of the skeletal system has been reduced by 8 to 10 times, while that required to obtain a 3D reconstruction from CT slices has fallen by a factor of 800 to 1000...
February 2005: Bulletin de L'Académie Nationale de Médecine