A practical method for detected quantum efficiency (DQE) assessment of digital mammography systems in the radiological environment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 645-655

  Rogge, Frank ^a   Vandenbroucke, Dirk ^b   Struye, Luc ^b   Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Willems, Peter ^b   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AGFA GEVAERT N V   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DQE; MTF; NNPS; Quantum fluence

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOLOGY; X RAYS;

NORMALIZED NOISE POWER SPECTRUM (NNPS);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036032131     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465609     Document Type: Article

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