Imaging performance with different doses in skeletal radiography: Comparison of a needle-structured and a conventional storage phosphor system with a flat-panel detector

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 152-160

  Wirth, Stefan ^a   Treitl, Marcus ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Körner, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CADAVER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SKELETON; SOFT TISSUE; TRABECULAR BONE; X RAY; ARTIFACT; BONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOOT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X RAY FILM;

ARTIFACTS; BONE AND BONES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOOT; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 58149359696     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2493080640     Document Type: Article

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