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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 165, 105-107, Copyright © 1995 by American Roentgen Ray Society
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AJ Wilson
Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle 98104, USA.
Digital images as an alternative to plain radiographs in musculoskeletal radiology have not been readily accepted to date. This article looks at the different aspects of filmless imaging and offers an opinion concerning this lack of acceptance. Although spatial resolution, image storage, and image transmission present potential problems, the greatest problem is image display. Commercially available workstations do not compete well with the speed and simplicity of the conventional film and view box.
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