Digital radiography: Image quality and radiation dose

Health Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 586-598

  Seibert, J Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic imaging; Imaging; National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FILM; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE REDUCTION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; X RAY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; X RAY FILM;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 56149117113     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000326338.14198.a2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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