Goniometric and conoscopic measurements of angular display contrast for one-, three-, five-, and nine-million-pixel medical liquid crystal displays

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3452-3460

  Badano, Aldo ^a,b   Fifadara, Dipesh H ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HFZ 142 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Display contrast; Liquid crystal display; Luminance response; Medical display; Viewing angle

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DIAGNOSIS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LUMINANCE; PIXELS;

ACTIVE MATRIX LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; DIGITAL DIAGNOSTICS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MEDICAL DISPLAY; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VIEWING ANGLE; VIEWING DIRECTIONS; VIEWING-ANGLE CHARACTERISTICS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISPLAY SYSTEM; GONIOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 11244270542     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1824198     Document Type: Article

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