ABSTRACT
Computerized radiographic modalities are those imaging methods that utilize computer hardware to capture and store the data and software to manipulate, reorganize, and reconstruct data collected from imaging studies. There are two major categories of computerized modalities. The first is computed tomography (CT), which most people have become familiar with either through the popular media or as a patient or the relative of a patient. The second has to do with an effort to replace film with a digital image receptor (IR) as the recording media. There are two approaches in this category: computed radiography (CR) and direct digital radiography (DR; Fauber 2009). This chapter will present descriptions of these powerful imaging modalities, including a brief overview of the historical development, technological features, and the application potentials in the area of anthropological and archaeological research.
