An in vitro study comparing two different film-screen combinations in the detection of impacted fish bones

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-1998

Abstract

Dried fish bones from eight species of Malaysian fish were placed in an animal cadaver at four sites (tonsil, valleculae, larynx and oesophagus) and radiographed using a double and a single film-screen combination. The use of the single film-screen combination resulted in visibility of all fish bones placed in the larynx, two of which were not visible on the double film-screen combination. There was a 50% increase of the visibility of the fish bones in the oesophagus using the single film-screen combination. The difference in dose and cost between the two different film-screen combinations was not significant.

Keywords

Animals, Bone and Bones/radiography

Publication Title

The British Journal of Radiology

ISSN

0007-1285

Divisions

fac_med

Volume

71

Issue

849

Publisher

British Institute of Radiology

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