Dose reduction in xeroradiography--application to chest tomography.
Exposure and image quality in xeroradiography were studied in a test object and in patient tomographic examinations of the chest. With increased tube voltage and added copper filtration, skin exposure was reduced up to a factor of 10 without loss of image quality.
D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000379:methods*; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods*; D014986:Xeroradiography / Q000379:methods*