A Simple Method for Determining the Modulation Transfer Function in Digital Radiography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 34-39

  Fujita, Hiroshi ^a   Tsai, Du Yih ^b   Itoh, Takumi ^c   Doi, Kunio ^d   Morishita, Junji ^e   Ueda, Katsuhiko ^e   Ohtsuka, Akiyoshi ^e  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS--FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADIOGRAPHY--DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS; SAMPLING;

DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; LEAD-DISK METHOD; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOSTIMULABLE PHOSPHOR PLATE;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026837927     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.126908     Document Type: Article

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