Perception of fluoroscopy last-image hold

Medical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 1875-1883

  Aufrichtig, Richard ^b   Xue, Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

last image hold; visual perception; x ray dose; x ray fluoroscopy

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLUORESCENT SCREENS; PIXELS;

CYLINDER DIAMETERS; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; LAST-IMAGE HOLD; TEMPORAL FILTERING; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; X-RAY DOSE; X-RAY FLUOROSCOPY;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; VISION;

EID: 0028605949     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597225     Document Type: Article

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