[Roentgen pictures in the digital image].

In addition to computed tomography which presents actually the most important processing and transfer procedure of digital X-ray images, application of real time addition and subtraction of X-ray images in a digital mode has found considerable interest. An estimation of the information contents of both digital and analog images is made in close relation to applications. As example of an image processing system on digital base a recently developed system for intravenous arteriography is described: the Philips-DVI.