Clinical magnification error in lateral spinal digital radiographs

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Ravi, Bheeshma ^a   Rampersaud, Raja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Diagnostic imaging; Quantitative measurements; Spine; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; MAGNIFICATION RADIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA BODY;

ARTIFACTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43049098562     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31816f6c3f     Document Type: Article

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