Technical note: A comparison of antiscatter grids for digital radiography

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 77, Issue 923, 2004, Pages 950-952

  Court, L ^a,b   Yamazaki, T ^a  

^a CANON INC   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY TUBE;

PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 10044296987     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/21117919     Document Type: Article

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