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Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Vol 26, Issue 3 147-151, Copyright © 1997 by British Institute of Radiology

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A comparison of the response of storage phosphor and film radiography to small variations in X-ray exposure

C. F. Hildebolt, G. Fletcher, N. Yokoyama-Crothers, G. L. Conover and M. W. Vannier
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the response to small repeated variations in X-ray exposure of storage phosphor (SP) plates compared with Ektaspeed Plus dental film. METHODS: Exposure of SP plates and Ektaspeed Plus dental film was varied within a small range [8.62 microC kg-1 to 9.03 microC kg-1, (5%)]. Radiographs were digitized and SP plates read with a laser-based scanner. Nested analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, and regression analysis were used to test the relationship between exposure and the resulting signal. RESULTS: The relationship between exposure and signal for digital images of film radiographs was not significant whereas the corresponding relationship for SP images was highly significant (P < 0.001, R2 = 0.44). CONCLUSIONS: Over the narrow range of X-ray exposures studied there was a significant direct linear relationship between exposure and digital gray-scale values for SP images but not for digital images of Ektaspeed Plus films.


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