Needle image plates compared to conventional CR in chest radiography: Is dose reduction possible?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4156-4160

  Berger Kulemann, Vanessa ^a   Pötter Lang, Sarah ^a   Gruber, Michael ^a   Berger, Rudolf ^a   Vonbank, Karin ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Rabitsch, Werner ^a   Uffmann, Martin ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KH Neunkirchen ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Chest radiogram; Digital radiography; Needle image plate; Powder image plate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; NEEDLE IMAGE PLATE; NOISE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POWDER IMAGE PLATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; RIB FRACTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 84869865083     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.06.060     Document Type: Article

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