A comparison of the imaging properties of CCD-based devices used for small field digital mammography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 117-135

  Evans, D S ^a,c   Workman, A ^b   Payne, M ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOSPHORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SMALL-FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY (SFDM);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAYS;

EID: 0036145048     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/1/309     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Spectral modelling and compilation of quantum fluence in radiography and mammography
2. A Monte Carlo study of fluorescence in x-ray detectors
3. A clinical comparison between conventional and digital mammography utilizing computed radiography
4. Advances in high-speed mammographic image quality
5. Analysis of the detective quantum efficiency of a radiographic screen-film combination
6. Catalogue of diagnostic x-ray spectra and other data
7. A method for modulation transfer function determination from edge profiles with correction for finite-element differentiation
8. Monte Carlo calculation of conversion factors for the estimation of mean glandular breast dose
9. Effects of undersampling on the proper interpretation of modulation transfer function, noise power spectrum and noise equivalent quanta of digital imaging systems
10. Modulation transfer function for a large-area amorphous silicon image receptor
11. Resolution properties of a computed radiographic system
12. Investigation of basic imaging properties in digital radiography. 2. Noise Wiener Spectrum
13. Image information transfer properties of x-ray intensifying screens in the energy range from 17 to 320 keV
14. 2 amorphous silicon flat panel x-ray detector for radiographic imaging applications
15. System considerations in CCD-based x-ray imaging for digital chest radiography and digital mammography
16. Digital luminescence mammography, early clinical experience
17. Detective quantum efficiency of a CsI:Tl scintillator based scanning slot x-ray detector for digital mammography
18. Digital mammography performed with computed radiography technology
19. Charge-coupled device detector: Performance considerations and potential for small-field mammographic imaging applications
20. Imaging characteristics of different mammographic screens
21. A comprehensive physical image quality evaluation of a selenium based digital x-ray imaging system for thorax radiography
22. Comparison of full-field digital mammography with screen-film mammography for cancer detection: Results of 4,945 paired examinations
23. Random noise produced by x-ray fluorescent screens
24. Scanned projection digital mammography
25. Effect of finite phosphor thickness on detective quantum efficiency
26. Physical and psychophysical evaluation of digital systems for mammography
27. Absorption and noise in caesium iodide x-ray image intensifiers
28. An analysis of the fundamental limitations of screen-film systems for x-ray detection I. General theory
29. Flat-field correction technique for digital detectors
30. Practical digital imaging and PACS
31. Absorption and noise in x-ray phosphors
32. OPDIMA: Large area CCD based X-ray image sensor for spot imaging and biopsy control in mammography
33. Conversion noise measurement for front and back x-ray intensifying screens
34. An application of multivariate moment-generating functions to the analysis of signal and noise propagation in radiographic screen-film systems
35. Full breast digital mammography with an amorphous silicon-based flat panel detector: Physical characteristics of a clinical prototype
36. Mammographic imaging with a small format CCD-based digital cassette: Physical characteristics of a clinical system
37. Analysis of the detective quantum efficiency of a developmental detector for digital mammography
38. Signal, noise and SNR transfer properties of computed radiography
39. Physical evaluation of computed radiography as a mammographic x-ray imaging system
40. Categorical course in diagnostic radiology physics: Physical aspects of breast imaging-current and future considerations
41. X-ray detectors for digital radiography