Comparison of clinical and physical measures of image quality in chest and pelvis computed radiography at different tube voltages

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4169-4175

  Sandborg, Michael ^a   Tingberg, Anders ^b   Ullman, Gustaf ^a   Dance, David R ^c   Alm Carlsson, Gudrun ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Computed radiography; Effective dose; Image quality; Pelvis radiography; Signal to noise ratio; Tube voltage; Visual grading analysis

Indexed keywords

GRADING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTUM NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY DETECTORS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE DOSE; TUBE VOLTAGES; VISUAL GRADING ANALYSIS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE QUALITY; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750573935     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2362871     Document Type: Article

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