Developing and validating a psychometric scale for image quality assessment

Radiography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 306-311

  Mraity, H ^a,b   England, A ^a   Hogg, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KUFA   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Image quality; Pelvis; Psychometric scale

Indexed keywords

CONTENT VALIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY;

EID: 84908542015     PISSN: 10788174     EISSN: 15322831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radi.2014.04.002     Document Type: Review

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