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Notebook9

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Artifact Causes Appearance


Dirtonoptics(lenses, Notcleaned Horizontalwhitelines
mirror,andlightguide

DamagedIRplate Wear/tear,handling Cracksposingasforeignbodies,radiolucentandwhite


Ghosting Incompleteerasure Canseeotheranatomy,besidestheanatomytheimagebeingtaken.Ex:pelvisonachest

Platereader Platereader Lines/patternsontheimage


electronic
malfunctioning,
appearsonmultiple
imagesnotonsame
plate
Backscatterartifacts Backscatter Darklinesontheimage,blackandradiopaque
transmittedthrough
cracksintheplate

Quantummottle Notenoughradiation Notaqualityimage,grainy


exposuretodetector,
needsmoremAs
Moire Gridlinesare Graylines
paralleltoscanning
laserinCRreader
Aliasing Spatialfrequencyis Wraparoundimage,ghosting,slightlyoutofalignment,lookslikedoubleexposure
greaterthan
sampling

Histogramerrors

Ifsoftwarecannotfindborders,allimagedataincluded,histogramisappliedtoallimagedata,notjustVOI
Whenrescaled,softwarecannotproperlyadjustimagetoreferencehistogram
LUTcannotproperlyapplycontrast
Imagemaylookdarkorlight,havelittlecontrastlatitude
Cannotwindow/levelimage

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