Use of a slit camera for MTF measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2286-2294

  Bradford, Carla D ^a   Peppler, Walter W ^a   Waidelich, Jacob M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Correction factor; Modulation Transfer Function (MTF); Monte Carlo N particle code (MCNP); Slit camera

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CAMERAS; ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TRANSMISSIONS;

ALIGNMENT SENSITIVITIES; ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE; CORRECTION FACTORS; FILTRATION MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLE CODE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING; SLIT CAMERAS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; FILTRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOGRAPHY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032742082     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598742     Document Type: Article

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