The rib index is not practically affected by the distance between the radiation source and the examined child

BACKGROUND: All lateral spinal radiographs in idiopathic scoliosis (IS) show a Double Rib Contour Sign (DRCS) of the thoracic cage, a radiographic expression of the rib hump. The outline of the convex overlies the contour of the concave ribs. The rib index (RI) method was extracted from the DRCS to...

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Published in:Scoliosis
Main Authors: Grivas, Theodoros B, Soultanis, Konstantinos C, Mazioti, Christina, Kechagias, Vasileios, Akriotis, Antonios, Athanasopoulos, Konstantinos, Naskas, Christos
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331768/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810757
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-10-S2-S8
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