Preoperative planning for total hip arthroplasty includes templating on anteroposterior radiographs. It is necessary to consider radiographic magnification in order to scale templates accurately. Studies dealing with hip templating report different values of radiographic magnification. It is not clear if the observed difference in magnification between the studies is caused by variability in st...

The twin of this paper, “Forbidden Magnification? I.” [1], presents systematic SOM simulations with the explicit magnification control scheme of Bauer, Der, and Herrmann [2] on data for which the theory does not guarantee success, namely data that are n-D, n > 2 and/or data whose components in the different dimensions are not statistically independent. For the unsupported n = 2 cases that we in...

Digital templating with external calibration markers is the standard method for planning total hip arthroplasty. We determined the geometrical basis of the magnification effect, compared magnification with external and internal calibration markers, and examined the influence on magnification of the position of the calibration markers, patient weight, and body mass index (BMI). A formula was der...

Electronic magnification of an image results in a decrease in its perceived contrast. The decrease in perceived contrast could be due to a perceived blur or to limited sampling of the range of contrasts in the original image. We measured the effect on perceived contrast of magnification in two contexts: either a small video was enlarged to fill a larger area, or a portion of a larger video was ...

This white paper summarizes a study comparing MicroDose Diagnostic Scan to geometric magnification for imaging fine image details, and explains the efficiency of the Diagnostic Scan functionality of the MicroDose system based on two phantom studies. Highlights of these studies reveal: • Diagnostic Scan, an exclusive feature of Philips MicroDose Mammography, helps discern fine details in spot co...

A shallow depth-of-field is often used as a creative element in photographs. This, however, comes at the cost of expensive and heavy camera equipment, such as large sensor DSLR bodies and fast lenses. In contrast, cheap small-sensor cameras with fixed lenses usually exhibit a larger depth-of-field than desirable. In this case a computational solution is suggesting, since a shallow depth-of-fiel...