Subjective and objective measures of image quality in digital fluoroscopy

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 34-37

  Walsh, C ^a   Dowling, A ^a   Meade, A ^b   Malone, J ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIGITAL IMAGING; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; X RAY;

EUROPE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY; X-RAYS;

EID: 33645234497     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci708     Document Type: Article

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