Localization of an embolized catheter tip by digital image enhancement
| Autor: | S C Wilson, E M Paul, D S Channin, L S Segal |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent business.industry General Medicine Pulmonary Artery Foreign Bodies Radiographic Image Enhancement Tibial Fractures Catheter Digital image Fracture Fixation Internal Catheters Indwelling Foreign-Body Migration Fluoroscopy Catheterization Peripheral medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Equipment Failure Female Radiology Nuclear medicine business |
| Zdroj: | AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 163(5) |
| ISSN: | 0361-803X |
| Popis: | Computerized processing ofdigitalradiognaphs isanareaofintensive research. Plainfilmradiographs canbecon-verted todigital images, whereas computed radiographyprovides amechanism forobtaining directdigitalimages [1].Theresulting digitalimages canbeprocessed bycomputer.Barnes andLauno[2]recently published anintroduction toimage processing indigitalradiography. Wedescribe whatwebelievetobethefirstsuccessful useofthistechnique toenhance digitized images ofplainnadiognaphs tolocateaforeign body.CaseReportA13.5-year-oldhealthygirlwasadmittedforoperativeinternalfixa-tionofadisplacedfractureofthedistallefttibia.Atthetimeofdis-chargefromthehospital,anurseremoved a20-gaugeJob |
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