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Research Article

Automated detection of changes in patient exposure in digital projection radiography using exposure index from DICOM header metadata

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Pages 960-965 | Received 15 Mar 2011, Accepted 06 Apr 2011, Published online: 18 Jul 2011

Figures & data

Figure 1. Detector dose time series and median filtered signal with analysis windows A and B. Excerpt from lumbar spine frontal (Fuji XG-1).

Figure 1. Detector dose time series and median filtered signal with analysis windows A and B. Excerpt from lumbar spine frontal (Fuji XG-1).

Figure 2. Detector dose time series with the signal level in analysis window B, LB, decreased by a factor kσ, where k is a constant and σ is the mean value of the variation in analysis window B as estimated by Qn.

Figure 2. Detector dose time series with the signal level in analysis window B, LB, decreased by a factor kσ, where k is a constant and σ is the mean value of the variation in analysis window B as estimated by Qn.

Figure 3. Variation of Wilcoxon p-value in a detector dose time series with an abrupt change around image #80 in lumbar spine time series.

Figure 3. Variation of Wilcoxon p-value in a detector dose time series with an abrupt change around image #80 in lumbar spine time series.

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