Erin B. Macdonald, PhD

The X-ray Heel Effect influences automatic exposure control (AEC) termination at different AEC cell locations. This study evaluates the Heel Effect’s influence on AEC cell balance testing methodologies in digital radiography.

General radiography lacks a clinically relevant, vendor-agnostic metric to indicate for-presentation image quality across anatomical views. While exposure index is commonly used to indicate exposure appropriateness, it is biased by vendor-specific region-of-i...