Figures of merit for detectors in digital radiography. II. Finite number of secondaries and structured backgrounds

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 359-367

  Pineda, Angel R ^a,b   Barrett, Harrison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital radiography; DQE; Image quality; Lumpy background; NEQ

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FIGURES OF MERITS; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; LUMPY BACKGROUND; SHIFT INVARIANCE; SOURCES OF VARIATION; STRUCTURED BACKGROUND;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 1242316310     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1631427     Document Type: Article

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