Micro-angiography for neuro-vascular imaging. II. Cascade model analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3029-3039

  Ganguly, Arundhuti ^a   Rudin, Stephen ^a   Bednarek, Daniel R ^a   Hoffmann, Kenneth R ^b  

^a ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency; Digital detector; K fluorescence; Micro angiography; Modulation transfer function; Parallel cascade theory; Region of interest imaging; System optimization

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CESIUM IODIDE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; STREAM FLOW; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; X RAYS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL DETECTOR; MICRO-ANGIOGRAPHY; PARALLEL CASCADE THEORY; REGION-OF-INTEREST IMAGING; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ABSORPTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CALCULATION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

EID: 0344393789     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1617550     Document Type: Article

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