System performance of a prototype flat-panel imager operated under mammographic conditions

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1874-1890

  Jee, Kyung Wook ^a   Antonuk, Larry E ^a   El Mohri, Youcef ^a   Zhao, Qihua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Active matrix flat panel imager; Cascaded systems model; Detective quantum efficiency; Digital mammography

Indexed keywords

CESIUM IODIDE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; FOOD ADDITIVES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IONIZATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOSPHORS; PIXELS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; X RAYS;

ACTIVE MATRIX ARRAYS; ACTIVE MATRIX FLAT-PANEL IMAGERS; CASCADED SYSTEM; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

CESIUM; GADOLINIUM; THALLIUM;

ACTIVE MATRIX FLAT PANEL IMAGER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; ENERGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY;

EID: 0037962475     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1585051     Document Type: Article

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