Monthly monitoring program on DryView(TM) laser Imager: One year experience on five Imation units

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1817-1821

  Lu, Z F ^a   Nickoloff, E L ^a   Terilli, T ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry film processing; DryView(TM) laser imager; Film processing QC

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; DRY FILMS; FILM PROCESSING; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; LASER IMAGER; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY FILM;

EID: 0032844975     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598686     Document Type: Article

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