ABSTRACT
A storage phosphor digital imaging system has been used to perform virtually all of an increasing number of mobile (portable) projectional roentgenographic examinations in a busy hospital. Approximately 130 such studies are done per day, of which about 110 are chest examinations. The processing unit suffices to keep pace with peak activity in the radiology department. This technique has decreased the repeat rate for portable anteroposterior chest radiographic examinations from 4.5% to less than 1% and has resulted in an even more dramatic reduction in the rate for lateral or decubitus chest examinations as well as for studies of the abdomen and those done in the operating room. The diagnostic accuracy and confidence level achieved in interpreting the complementary pair of digital images has been equivalent to or has exceeded that obtained with conventional mobile analog film-screen radiographs.
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Hospital Departments/organization & administration , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods , Radiographic Image Enhancement/methods , Radiography, Thoracic/methods , Radiology Department, Hospital/organization & administration , Technology, Radiologic/methods , Equipment Design , Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/standards , Humans , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/instrumentation , Missouri , Radiographic Image Enhancement/instrumentation , Radiography, Thoracic/instrumentation , Technology, Radiologic/instrumentation , X-Ray Intensifying Screens/standardsABSTRACT
Gas chromatography has been utilised in the analysis of two National Bureau of Standard alloys for quantitative determination of aluminium, iron and copper. In the analysis of N.B.S. 162a the relative mean errors were 3.13% for aluminium, 2.06% for iron and -1.72% for copper and for N.B.S. 164a the relative mean errors were -1.39%, -0.19% and -0.89% for aluminium, iron and copper, respectively. The procedure for analysis involves solution of the alloy, conversion of the metal ions to trifluoroacetylacetonates by solvent extraction and, finally, complete separation of the metal chelates and quantitative determination by gas chromatography using a column containing Gas Pack F coated with Tissuemat E, a polyethylene wax. Other metals present in the N.B.S. samples did not interfere with the determination of aluminium, iron and copper.
