Report on a new type of trauma full-body digital X-ray machine

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-29

  Beningfield, S ^a   Potgieter, H ^b   Nicol, A ^a   Van As, S ^a   Bowie, G ^a   Hering, E ^a   Latti E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Industrial Development Corporation   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Digital radiography; Multiple trauma; Radiographic image enhancement; Trauma centres; X ray computed tomography scanners

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INJURY; MEDIASTINUM; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY;

EID: 0037870428     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-003-0271-x     Document Type: Article

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