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Sci Rep2021;11(1):7701.April 8, 2021Journal Article
Image quality is resilient against tube voltage variations in post-mortem skeletal radiography with a digital flat-panel detector.
S Notohamiprodjo1, K M Roeper2, K M Treitl3, B Hoberg4, F Wanninger5, L Verstreepen6, F G Mueck7, D Maxien8, F Fischer9, O Peschel9, S Wirth10
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Rechts Der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675, Munich, Germany. s.notohamiprodjo@tum.de.
2Department of Ophtalmology, Klinikum Rechts Der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
3Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Munich, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
4Agfa HealthCare Germany GmbH, Bonn, Germany.
5Agfa-Gevaert HealthCare GmbH, Munich, Germany.
6Agfa HealthCare N.V., Mortsel, Belgium.
7Department of Radiology, HELIOS Klinikum München West, Munich, Germany.
8Radiologie Zentrum München, Munich, Germany.
9Institute of Forensic Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
10Institute of Radiology, Schwarzwald-Baar Klinikum, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.
Abstract
In recent phantom studies low-contrast detectability was shown to be independent from variations in tube voltage in digital radiography (DR) systems. To investigate the transferability to a clinical setting, the lower extremities of human cadavers were exposed at constant detector doses with different tube voltages in a certain range, as proposed in the phantom studies. Three radiologists independ…
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