Perceptual comparison of pulsed and continuous fluoroscopy

Medical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 245-256

  Aufrichtig, Richard ^a   Ping, Xue ^a   Thomas, Cecil W ^a   Gilmore, Grover C ^a   Wilson, David L ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

medical imaging; visual perception; x ray dose; x ray fluoroscopy

Indexed keywords

LOW PASS FILTERS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; QUANTUM NOISE; X RAYS;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; COMPUTER-GENERATED PHANTOMS; FORCED-CHOICE EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; VISUAL PERCEPTION; X-RAY DOSE; X-RAY FLUOROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENT SCREENS;

ARTICLE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0028085296     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597285     Document Type: Article

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