Contrast perception in digitized panoramic radiographs compared with their film-based origin

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

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 388-394

  Schulze, Ralf Kurt Willy ^a,b   Rosing, Stephan Tobias Roman ^a   D'Hoedt, Bernd ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Poliklin fur Zahnarztliche Chir   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; RADIODENSITOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY FILM;

ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL, DIGITAL; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 0036717328     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.126450     Document Type: Article

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