Optimum tube voltage for chest radiographs obtained by psychophysical analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2170-2175

  Asai, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tanabe, Yumi ^a   Ozaki, Yoshiaki ^b   Kubota, Hideaki ^c   Matsumoto, Masao ^c   Kanamori, Hitoshi ^d  

^a KINDAI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Res Inst of Sci Investigation   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest radiograph; Minimum perceptible contrast; Psychophysical analysis; X ray spectrum; X ray tube voltage

Indexed keywords

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY FILMS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; MINIMUM PERCEPTIBLE CONTRAST; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; X RAY SPECTRUM; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGES;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DETECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0031740182     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598413     Document Type: Article

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