X-Ray viewer demonstrated at medical meeting

• Book ID: 103081394
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1958
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 265
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(58)90431-9

✦ Synopsis

He pointed out that this new electronic system enhances X-ray contrast in "gray scale" variations and magnifies the area being viewed. Dr. Gershon-Cohen was closely associated with Philco's research engineers during the development of "EXICON" at the company's Government and Industrial Division plant here.

Dr. Gershon-Cohen went on to explain that the human eye, like the majority of senses, responds to stimuli on a relative, or percentage basis. For example, the eye will recognize an area of a picture as being brighter than a neighboring area, provided there is a certain brightness differential.

"Important information contained in a small area of low contrast X-ray negatives is frequently difficult to discern by the usual visual process,