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Recent Advances in Digital X-Ray Equipment

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Digital technology provides promising possibilities that are not available for analog devices. Two-energy X-ray imaging, tomosynthesis, linear phase-contrast imaging, and computer aided detection (CAD) systems are discussed.

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Translated from Meditsinskaya Tekhnika, Vol. 44, No. 5, 2010, pp. 10–13.

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Mazurov, A.I. Recent Advances in Digital X-Ray Equipment. Biomed Eng 44, 169–171 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10527-011-9179-z

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