Quality control of equipment used in digital and interventional radiology

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 277-282

  Zoetelief, J ^a   van Soldt, R T M ^a   Suliman, I I ^a   Jansen, J T M ^a   Bosmans, H ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; GENERATOR; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY TUBE;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; X-RAYS;

EID: 33645239689     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci739     Document Type: Article

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