Pelvic imaging with a selenium-based detector (Thoravision): Comparison with screen-film radiography in 75 patients

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 761-766

  Winterer, Jan Thorsten ^a   Kotter, Elmar ^b   Einert, Almut ^b   Gimpel, Siegfried ^b   Neumann, Klaus ^b   Laubenberger, Jörg ^b   Uhrmeister, Peter ^b   Langer, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Comparative study; Digital radiography; Image processing; Skeletal radiography

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY FILM;

EID: 0032748874     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199912000-00005     Document Type: Article

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