Kualitas Radiografi

KONTRAS
 Kontras radiografi
Radiographic Contrast is the difference between
adjacent densities (Charlton and Adler).

Karena nilai kontras adalah perbedaan dari dua atau

lebih daerah densitas, maka kita harus memahami
faktor kontrol thd densitas sebagai prasyarat.
Meski kontras adalah faktor yang independen, tetapi
fakta bahwa itu tersusun atas beberapa densitas,
membuatnya sangat sulit untuk memisahkannya
dari evaluasi densitas secara keseluruhan.
 Penjelasan-1
• Low contrast vs high contrast ? What is the
best ?
• Distance between the greyscale.
• Few vs many shades of grey.
• Short vs long scale
• All source is in film stripe.
 Penjelasan-2
• Low contrast provides more information,
because provides more differences in density,
even though the difference is less, but remain
within the visible range. So low contrast
provides more diagnostic information.
• Radiographic contrast is the total amount of
contrast acquired, from both the anatomical
part and the film. So it is described as subject
and image receptor (film) contrast, respectively.
 Affecting factors to film contrast
• Intensifying Screen .
• Film density.
• D log E curve.
• processing
 Affecting factors to subject contrast

Subject contrast is the range of the difference in

the intensity of the x-ray beam, after it has
been attenuated by the subject. It is
dependent on :
• kV .
• Amount of irradiated material.
• Type of irradiated material.
Evaluating contrast