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Notebook 9

The document describes several types of digital artifacts that can appear on medical images, their causes, and appearances. The artifacts include dirt on light causing horizontal white lines, IP wear and tear showing as white areas, plate reader electronics malfunctions creating lines/patterns, ghosting from incomplete erasure appearing foggy with secondary images, and moire effects from interference of patterns on grids. Backscatter is also discussed, caused by transmission through cracks appearing as dark lines.

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Notebook 9

The document describes several types of digital artifacts that can appear on medical images, their causes, and appearances. The artifacts include dirt on light causing horizontal white lines, IP wear and tear showing as white areas, plate reader electronics malfunctions creating lines/patterns, ghosting from incomplete erasure appearing foggy with secondary images, and moire effects from interference of patterns on grids. Backscatter is also discussed, caused by transmission through cracks appearing as dark lines.

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Notebook 9

Digital Artifacts
DIGITAL ARTIFACT TYPE:
Dirt on Light
(optics, mirrors, lenses, and light guides)

CAUSE(S):
* Imaging plate handling
* Plate in and out of cassette thorough CR reader

APPEARANCE:
Horizontal white lines on image

DIGITAL ARTIFACT TYPE:


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IP wear and tear

CAUSE(S):
Cracks appearing as a foreign body

APPEARANCE:
White areas on the image.

DIGITAL ARTIFACT TYPE:


Plate Reader Artifacts
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CAUSE(S):
Plate reader electronics malfunctioning

APPEARANCE:
Extraneous lines/ patterns on image
Appears on multiple images

DIGITAL ARTIFACT TYPE:


Ghosting

CAUSE(S):
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* Incomplete Erasure
* Incorrect erasure settings

APPEARANCE:
Images are foggy, may include secondary images due to
incomplete erasure

DIGITAL ARTIFACT TYPE:


Moire Effect

CAUSE(S):
* Short exposure time
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* Too rapid of sequence of exposure
*Grid error

APPEARANCE:
Interference of patterns, grid lines

DIGITAL ARTIFACT TYPE:


Histogram

CAUSE(S):
If software cannot find borders, all image data included
Histogram applied to all image data, not just VOI
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When rescaled, software cannot properly adjust image to
reference histogram
LUT cannot properly apply contrast
Image may look dark or light, have little contrast latitude
Cannot window/level image

APPEARANCE:

DIGITAL ARTIFACT TYPE:


Backscatter

CAUSE(S):
Due to backscatter transmitted through cracks in the plate

APPEARANCE:
Dark lines on the image
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