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Radiographic film fog artifact caused by fluorescent bandage
R S Feinstein1, C E Gribbin, R J Tokarz
1Department of Radiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick 08903-0019.
Radiology
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
Film fog is a common cause of x-ray film artifact. The authors report an unusual source of film fogging in the darkroom--seen in three consecutive radiographs of two different patients--the exposure of film to the low light emission of a fluorescent commercial adhesive bandage worn by the technologist. Heightened awareness of the effects of these bandages will help avoid creation of this film fog artifact.