Artifacts found during quality assurance testing of computed radiography and digital radiography detectors

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-392

  Honey, Ian D ^a   MacKenzie, Alistair ^b  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed radiography; Diagnostic image quality; Digital radiology; Image artifact; Quality assurance; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT IMAGES; COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE QUALITY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOLOGY; FLAT FIELD CORRECTION; IMAGE ARTIFACT; IMAGE RETENTION; LOW-PASS; MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; TEST OBJECT; UNSHARP MASKING; X-RAY IMAGING DETECTOR;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FLOW PATTERNS; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW PASS FILTERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68049139345     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-008-9109-0     Document Type: Article

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