Comparison between a built-in "dual side" chest imaging device and a standard "single side" CR

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 119-126

  Riccardi, Lucia ^a   Cristina Cauzzo, Maria ^a   Fabbris, Roberto ^a   Tonini, Eugenia ^b   Righetto, Roberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST IMAGING; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY RANGES; INTEGRATED READOUT; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845962510     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2400619     Document Type: Article

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