Flat panel digital radiography compared with storage phosphor computed radiography: Assessment of dose versus image quality in phantom studies

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 609-614

  Fischbach, Frank ^a   Ricke, Jens ^a   Freund, Torsten ^a   Werk, Michael ^a   Spors, Birgit ^a   Baumann, Clemens ^a   Pech, Maciej ^a   Felix, Roland ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTRAST; DIGITAL COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0036830190     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200211000-00004     Document Type: Article

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