Published online before print October 19, 2005, 10.1148/radiol.2373041439
Personal Computer versus Workstation Display: Observer Performance in Detection of Wrist Fractures on Digital Radiographs1
Anthony J. Doyle, MB, ChB,
James Le Fevre, BHB and
Graeme D. Anderson, MB, ChB
1 From the Radiology Department, Middlemore Hospital, Hospital Rd, Otahuhu, Auckland 6, New Zealand. Received August 18, 2004; revision requested October 21; revision received December 17; accepted January 20, 2005.
Address correspondence to A.J.D. (e-mail: Adoyle{at}middlemore.co.nz).

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Figure a. Radiographs in a 51-year-old patient with multiple trauma. A scaphoid bone fracture was missed by one observer who used the PC. The fracture (arrow) is relatively subtle on (a) a posteroanterior wrist radiograph but easier to see on (b) an oblique view.
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Figure b. Radiographs in a 51-year-old patient with multiple trauma. A scaphoid bone fracture was missed by one observer who used the PC. The fracture (arrow) is relatively subtle on (a) a posteroanterior wrist radiograph but easier to see on (b) an oblique view.
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