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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