Assessment of display performance for medical imaging systems: Executive summary of AAPM TG18 report

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1205-1225

  Samei, Ehsan ^a,o   Badano, Aldo ^d   Chakraborty, Dev ^b,c   Compton, Ken ^d,e   Cornelius, Craig ^f   Corrigan, Kevin ^g   Flynn, Michael J ^h   Hemminger, Bradley ⁱ   Hangiandreou, Nick ^j   Johnson, Jeffrey ^k,l   Moxley Stevens, Donna M ^m   Pavlicek, William ^j   Roehrig, Hans ⁿ   Rutz, Lois ^d   Shepard, Jeffrey ^m   Uzenoff, Robert A ^p   Wang, Jihong ^m   Willis, Charles E ^m,q  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d Clinton Electronics ^*

^e National Display Systems

^f EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^g LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^j MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^k SARNOFF CORPORATION   (United States)

^l SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^o DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^p Fujifilm Medical Systems   (United States)

^q TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

Acceptance testing; Cathode ray tube; Image quality; Liquid crystal display; Medical display; Picture archiving and communication system (PACS); Quality assurance; Quality control

Indexed keywords

CATHODE RAY TUBES; CATHODES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); GLARE; GROUND OPERATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LUMINANCE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; DISTORTION COEFFICIENTS; ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICES; GRAYSCALE STANDARD DISPLAY FUNCTION; MEDICAL DISPLAY; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PACS); QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONICS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LIQUID CRYSTAL; LUMINANCE; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 17844408736     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1861159     Document Type: Article

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