Modeling the x-ray energy characteristics of DQE for full field digital mammography

Proceedings of SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4320, Issue , 2001, Pages 570-581

  Tkaczyk, J E ^a   Leblanc, J ^a   Nevin, R ^a   Kautz, G ^a   Albagli, D ^a   Sandrik, J ^a   Granfors, P ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency; Digital mammography; DQE; Flat panel detector; X ray spectrum

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ATTENUATION; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITION; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON ACTIVE MATRIX ARRAY; DIGITAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLAT PANEL DETECTOR; LUBBERTS EFFECT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; X RAY SPECTRUM;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034860608     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.430883     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Full breast digital mammography with an amorphous silicon-based flat panel detector: Physical characteristics of a clinical prototype
2. Self-normalizing method to measure the detective quantum efficiency of a wide range of x-ray detectors
3. Imaging performance of a digital storage phosphor system
4. DQE(f) of four generations of computed radiography acquisition devices
5. SNR and DQE analysis of broad spectrum x-ray imaging
6. Absorption and noise in x-ray phosphors
7. Investigation of basic imaging properties in digital radiography. Noise wiener spectrum
8. Effects of undersampling on the proper interpretation of modulation transfer function, noise power spectra, and noise equivalent quanta of digital imaging systems
9. "Degradation of detective quantum efficiency due to a non-unity detector fill factor" by Cunningham
10. The line spread function and MTF of a CT scanner
11. 2 amorphous silicon flat panel x-ray detector for radiographic imaging applications
12. Catalogue of diagnostic x-ray spectra and other data
13. Computation of bremsstrahlung x-ray spectra and comparison with spectra measured with a Ge(Li) detector
14. Calculated bremsstrahlung spectra from thick tungsten targets
15. Calculation of modulation transfer functions of x-ray fluorescent screens
16. Random noise produced by x-ray fluorescent screens
17. Effect of finite phosphor thickness on detective quantum efficiency