Abstract
This report documents the clinical testing of scanning beam digital radiography as an imaging method in patients with scoliosis. This type of digital imaging requires a skin exposure of only 2.4 mR (0.619 μC/kg) per image, compared with the lowest possible posteroanterior screenfilm exposure of 10 mR (2.58 μC/kg) at the chest and 60 mR (15.48 μC/kg) at the lumbar spine. Digital radiographic and screen-film images were obtained on multiple test objects and 273 patients. Scoliosis measurements using screen-film radiographs and digital radiographs were comparable to within a mean difference of 1° at many different degrees of severity. The low-dose digital images were found to be useful and accurate for the detection and measurement of scoliosis after the first screen-film radiographs have excluded tumors and structural abnormalities.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 175-181 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Radiology |
Volume | 161 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1986 |