[Digital radiology. Clinical experience].
The authors report the experience achieved at the Stanford University (USA) with a digital radiography system which allows the digitization of the film and of the images collected with photostimulable phosphors. The phosphor is essentially an intensifying screen where a latent image is stored after exposure to X-rays and is extracted by a laser scanning. The images collected with the digitized film and with the phosphor (chest, breast, bone) have been analyzed. The digitized film offers potential diagnostic advantages over the conventional film, because of the contrast manipulation and many other processing options. The possibility to recover the information of overexposed films appears very attractive. The photostimulable phosphors allow to get good quality images, with a consistent reduction of dose and costs. These plates offer the possibility, in the next future, to replace the conventional screen-film systems.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008327:Mammography; D008838:Microcomputers; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013679:Technology, Radiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*
Radiologia digitale. Esperienza clinica.