Image quality assessment and radiation doses in intraoral radiography

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 362-368

  Yakoumakis, Emmanuel N ^a   Tierris, Christine E ^a   Stefanou, Evripidis P ^a   Phanourakis, Ioannis G ^b   Proukakis, Charalambos Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY FILM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TIME FACTORS; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 0035293871     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2001.111940     Document Type: Article

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