Message-Id: <mailto:199503132321.RAA03099@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:30:59 -0500 From: Fred Kwiecien <mailto:kwiecien@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> Subject: Digitizing x-rays To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I need some advice about digitizing x-rays.
I do this now by placing the x-ray on a lightbox and then
photographing it using a 35mm camera on a copystand. I then scan the
resulting slide with my Nikon Coolscan film scanner. This is wasteful of
time (two separate processes) and materials (I don't really want the
slide). And there's an extra generation quality loss, too.
Are there other ways of doing this that are easier, faster, better?
Scanning it directly with a flatbed scanner doesn't yeild very good
results because it's translucent copy. ...And some x-ray film is larger
than the bed of the scanner, anyway.
And of course, I need the very best quality that I can get! I need
to retain very subtle gradations of tone, along with really white whites
and black blacks.
Suggestions?
Has anyone tried using the lightbox and copystand set-up, but with
a good digital camera?
Fred Kwiecien
State University of New York at Buffalo
Academic Services,
Computing and Information Technology
Art and Photographic Services
342 Abbott Hall
Buffalo, New York 14214-3002
Phone: (716) 829-2945
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INTERNET: mailto:kwiecien@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
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