Investigation of imaging performance of amorphous selenium flat-panel detectors for digital mammography

Proceedings of SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4320, Issue , 2001, Pages 536-546

  Zhao, W ^a   Ji, W G ^a   Rowlands, J A ^a   Debrie, A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; DQE; Flat panel detectors; MTF; NPS; Selenium

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SELENIUM; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM FLAT-PANEL DETECTOR; CASCADED LINEAR SYSTEM; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NYQUIST FREQUENCY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034874464     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.430876     Document Type: Article

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