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Magnification error of digital x rays on the computer screen.

Templating x-rays of total hip and knee replacements pre-operatively are important to plan surgery. This is usually done using acetate templates of the prosthesis on hard copies of the x-ray. With the change in practice, to use digital x-rays on computer screens instead of hard copies, it is important to assess if acetate templates can be used for digital x-rays on the computer screen. This is a retrospective x-ray study of 19 hip replacements and 30 knee replacements to assess their magnification using the Patient Archiving Computerised System (PACS) software. This study was done to assess the accuracy of magnification, using acetate templates over a computer screen. In total hip replacement, the outer cup diameter was also measured using the digital measurement scale. The mean magnification was 0.59 for the acetabular cup and the femoral stem in total hip replacement and 0.48 for the femoral and tibial implant in total knee replacement. The mean difference in cup diameter comparing to the real size was an excess of 10.21 mm. The study showed over-magnified hip and knee x-rays thus suggesting that acetate templates and measurement scales on PACS was not reliable.

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