Varied tube potential with constant effective dose at lumbar spine radiography using a flat-panel digital detector

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 240-245

  Geijer, Håkan ^a   Persliden, Jan ^a,b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUMBAR SPINE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 21244487476     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch509     Document Type: Article

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