A prospective randomized clinical trial comparing two film-screen systems for chest radiography

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 213-219

  Lefcoe, Michael S ^a,b   Cunningham, Ian A ^a   Vanderburgh, Leslie C ^a   Sparrow, R Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

asymmetric film screen system; chest imaging; evaluation of film screen system; thoracic imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY FILM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AZYGOS VEIN; BRONCHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRACHEA; X-RAY FILM; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 0029931659     PISSN: 00082902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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