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- Viscarra Rossel, R. A., et al.
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Field measurements of soil pH and lime requirement using an on-the-go Soil pH and Lime Requirement Measurement System
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Ingår i: Precision Agriculture 2005, ECPA 2005. ; , s. 511-520
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Further adoption and implementation of precision agriculture (PA) requires the development of proximal on-the-go sensing systems. Recently, an on-the-go Soil pH and Lime Requirement Measurement System (SpHLRMS) prototype was developed in a collaborative project between the Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture (ACPA), the Swedish Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (JTI) and Computronics Holdings Ltd. The system is made up of a soil sampling and sieving mechanism, a soil analytical component with a pH ISFET (Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistor) used to measure changes in soil pH and data collection and measurement algorithms. The system measures soil pH and lime requirement. This paper reports the results from field testing of the first prototype of the SpHLRMS. The accuracies of soil pH measurements in 0.01M CaCl2 and in deionised H2O were 0.37 and 0.6 pH units, respectively. The accuracy of estimated lime requirements was 0.6 Mg/ha. A number of improvements to the system are still needed but these first results are promising.
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- Sandborg, Michael, 1961-, et al.
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Demonstration of correlations between clinical and physical image quality measures in chest and lumbar spine screen-film radiography
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Ingår i: British Journal of Radiology. - : British Institute of Radiology. - 0007-1285 .- 1748-880X. ; 74:882, s. 520-528
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ability to predict clinical image quality from physical measures is useful for optimization in diagnostic radiology. In this work, clinical and physical assessments of image quality are compared and correlations between the two are derived. Clinical assessment has been made by a group of expert radiologists who evaluated fulfilment of the European image criteria for chest and lumbar spine radiography using two scoring methods: image criteria score (ICS) and visual grading analysis score (VGAS). Physical image quality measures were calculated using a Monte Carlo simulation model of the complete imaging system. This model includes a voxelized male anatomy and was used to calculate contrast and signal-to-noise ratio of various important anatomical details and measures of dynamic range. Correlations between the physical image quality measures on the one hand and the ICS and VGAS on the other were sought. 16 chest and 4 lumbar spine imaging system configurations were compared in frontal projection. A statistically significant correlation with clinical image quality was found in chest posteroanterior radiography for the contrast of blood vessels in the retrocardiac area and a measure of useful dynamic range. In lumbar spine anteroposterior radiography, a similar significant correlation with clinical image quality was found between the contrast and signal-to-noise ratio of the trabecular structures in the L1-L5 vertebrae. The significant correlation shows that clinical image quality can, at least in some cases, be predicted from appropriate measures of physical image quality.
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- Tingberg, Anders, et al.
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Influence of the characteristic curve on the clinical image quality of lumbar spine and chest radiographs.
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Ingår i: The British journal of radiology. - : British Institute of Radiology. - 0007-1285 .- 1748-880X. ; 77:915, s. 204-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The "European Guidelines on Quality Criteria for Diagnostic Radiographic Images" do not address the choice of the film characteristic (H&D) curve, which is an important parameter for the description of a radiographic screen-film system. The image contrast of clinical lumbar spine and chest radiographs was altered by digital image processing techniques, simulating images with different H&D curves, both steeper and flatter than the original. The manipulated images were printed on film for evaluation. Seven experienced radiologists evaluated the clinical image quality by analysing the fulfilment of the European Image Criteria (ICS) and by visual grading analysis (VGA) of in total 224 lumbar spine and 360 chest images. A parallel study of the effect of the H&D curve has also been made using a theoretical model. The contrast (DeltaOD) of relevant anatomical details was calculated, using a Monte Carlo simulation-model of the complete imaging system including a 3D voxel phantom of a patient. Correlations between the calculated contrast and the radiologists' assessment by VGA were sought. The results of the radiologists' assessment show that the quality in selected regions of lumbar spine and chest images can be significantly improved by the use of films with a steeper H&D curve compared with the standard latitude film. Significant (p<0.05) correlations were found between the VGA results and the calculations of the contrast of transverse processes and trabecular details in the lumbar spine vertebrae, and with the contrast of blood vessels in the retrocardiac area of the chest.
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