The AAPM/RSNA Physics Tutorial for Residents: Image Quality and the Clinical Radiographic Examination

Radiographics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 479-498

  Vyborny, Carl J ^a  

^a LaGrange Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Images, interpretation; Images, quality; Physics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIMB; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; STANDARD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 0031087471     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.17.2.9084085     Document Type: Article

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