Low-voltage digital selenium radiography: Detection of simulated interstitial lung disease, nodules, and catheters - A phantom study

Radiology

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 693-700

  Bernhardt, Thomas M ^a   Rapp Bernhardt, Ulrike ^a   Lenzen, Horst ^a   Roehl, Friedrich W ^b   Diederich, Stefan ^a   Papke, Karsten ^c   Ludwig, Karl ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Klinikum Duisburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimental study; Phantoms; Radiography, comparative studies; Radiography, digital; Radiography, selenium detector

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL; MEGLUMINE IOXITALAMATE PLUS SODIUM IOXITALAMATE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG NODULE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CATHETERIZATION; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SELENIUM;

EID: 4143090278     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2323030187     Document Type: Article

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