title: Artifacts in digital radiography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to discuss flat-panel digital radiography (DR) artifacts to help physicists, radiologists, and radiologic technologists visually familiarize themselves with an expanded range of artifact appearance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Flat-panel DR is a growing area of general radiography. As a radiology community, we are still becoming familiar with these systems and learning about clinically relevant artifacts and how to avoid them. These artifacts highlight important limitations or potential complications in using flat-panel DR systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. walzflannigan.alisa@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Alisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Walz-Flannigan
authors.forename: Dayne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Magnuson
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schueler
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D002138:Calibration; D006801:Humans; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013679:Technology, Radiologic; D014963:X-Ray Intensifying Screens