Amorphous Silicon, Flat-Panel, X-ray Detector: Reliability of Digital Image Fusion Regarding Angle and Distance Measurements in Long-Leg Radiography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 271-276

  Hamer, Okka W ^a,c   Strotzer, Michael ^b   Zorger, Niels ^a   Paetzel, Christian ^a   Lerch, Klaus ^a   Feuerbach, Stefan ^a   Völk, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Hospital Hohe Warte   (Germany)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital radiography; Flat panel detector; Image composition; Long leg radiography

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CESIUM IODIDE; IODINE DERIVATIVE; SILICON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMUR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; TIBIA; X RAY;

EID: 1942437012     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000117853.02516.01     Document Type: Article

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