Proportionality between Wiener spectra of quantum mottle and the squares of modulation transfer functions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1337-1352

  Arimura, Hidetaka ^a   Kubota, Hideaki ^b   Matsumoto, Masao ^b   Kanamori, Hitoshi ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY FILM;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 0032932107     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/5/318     Document Type: Article

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