[Luminescent digital radiography].
A review is made of the papers concerned with luminescent digital radiography, a new method for roentgen diagnostic examination based on the use of a luminescent screen which storage energy of ionizing radiation during exposure and liberates it in the form of light flashes (photostimulated luminescence) on screen scanning with a narrow beam of laser radiation. The principal bases of the method, properties of the storage screen and the most important parameters of the unit for luminescent digital radiography are considered. The advantages of the new method are discussed as compared with the methods used before as are prospects for its use.