Noise power spectra of images from digital mammography detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1279-1293

  Williams, Mark B ^a   Mangiafico, Peter A ^a   Simoni, Piero U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector; Digital mammography; Image analysis; Noise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM NOISE; X RAYS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY DETECTORS; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; NOISE CHARACTERIZATION; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCIES; RESIDUAL FIXED PATTERN NOISE;

POWER SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0032767557     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598623     Document Type: Article

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