Lumbar spine radiography: Digital flat-panel detector versus screen-film and storage-phosphor systems in monkeys as a pediatric model

Radiology

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 140-144

  Ludwig, Karl ^a   Ahlers, Kathrin ^b   Wormanns, Dag ^b   Freund, Michael ^b   Bernhardt, Thomas M ^b   Diederich, Stefan ^b   Heindel, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Animals; Experimental study; Flat panel detector; Radiography, comparative studies; Radiography, digital; Radiography, in infants and children; Radiography, storage phosphor; Spine, radiography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FILM; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MODEL; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 0141853098     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2291020717     Document Type: Article

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