Performance of a 41×41 cm2 amorphous silicon flat panel x-ray detector designed for angiographic and R&F imaging applications

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2715-2726

  Granfors, Paul R ^a   Aufrichtig, Richard ^a   Possin, George E ^b   Giambattista, Brian W ^a   Huang, Zhong S ^a   Liu, Jianqiang ^a   Ma, Bing ^a  

^a PERKINELMER INC   (United States)

^b GE Global Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Angiography; Detective quantum efficiency; Digital; DQE; Flat panel detector

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; EFFICIENCY; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (SOLID STATE); QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON DETECTORS; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

AMORPHOUS SILICON FLAT-PANEL; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER SYSTEM; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

SILICON;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; X-RAYS;

EID: 0142089322     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1609151     Document Type: Article

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