Digital slot-scan charge-coupled device radiography versus AMBER and Bucky screen-film radiography: Comparison of image quality in a phantom study

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 857-866

  Veldkamp, Wouter J H ^a   Kroft, Lucia J M ^a   Mertens, Bart J A ^a   Geleijns, Jacob ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MULTIPLE BEAM EQUALIZATION RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BUCKY SCREEN FILM RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SLOT SCAN CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG; MEDIASTINUM; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 18844380903     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2353031919     Document Type: Article

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