A comparison of the imaging characteristics of the new Kodak Hyper Speed G film with the current T-MAT G/RA film and the CR 9000 system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4541-4552

  Monnin, P ^a   Gutierrez, D ^a   Bulling, S ^a   Lepori, D ^b   Verdun, F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES (DQE); INTRINSIC SENSITIVITY; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA (NEQ); RADIATION QUALITIES (RQA);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; X RAY FILM;

RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; X-RAY FILM; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 25444526688     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/19/008     Document Type: Article

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