Experimental and clinical evaluation of cholangiography with xeroradiography.
Conventional screen film radiography is compared with xeroradiography in an experimental model for cholangiography. The wider exposure latitude of the xerographic technique confers certain diagnostic advantages. However, the actual clinical application presents practical difficulties, which, combined with low sensitivity, are of such a nature that the method can hardly be considered suitable at the present time. If certain improvements can be made, xeroradiography could become a superior method for radiography of the bile ducts.
D000818:Animals; D002758:Cholangiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D014986:Xeroradiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*