A method for reduction of eye fatigue by optimizing the ambient light conditions in radiology reading rooms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6145, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chawla, Amarpreet S ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMIC VIEWING; EYE FATIGUE; HIGH LUMINANCE RATIO; ROOM ILLUMINANCE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOLOGY; REFLECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745380418     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.655688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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