Wire transfer function analysis for castellated dual-energy x-ray detectors

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 35, 2004, Pages 6413-6420

  Chan, Jer Wang ^a   Evans, James Paul Owain ^a   Yong, Yen San ^a   Monteith, Andrew ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Home Office Central Research Establishment   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCREENING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; X RAYS;

BINOCULAR STEREOPSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WIRE TRANSFER FUNCTIONS (WTF); X-RAY DETECTORS;

X RAY APPARATUS;

EID: 10944269243     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006413     Document Type: Article

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