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X-Ray Intensifying Screens

"X-Ray Intensifying Screens" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Screens which absorb the energy in the x-ray beam that has penetrated the patient and convert this energy into a light pattern which has as nearly as possible the same information as the original x-ray beam. The more light a screen produces for a given input of x-radiation, the less x-ray exposure and thus shorter exposure time are needed to expose the film. In most film-screen systems, the film is sandwiched between two screens in a cassette so that the emulsion on each side is exposed to the light from its contiguous screen.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "X-Ray Intensifying Screens" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "X-Ray Intensifying Screens" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2002 and 2008 and 2012
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.