Validation of MTF measurement for digital mammography quality control

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1684-1695

  Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Vandenbroucke, Dirk ^b   Struye, Luc ^b   Maidment, Andrew D A ^c   Kao, Yen Hong ^c   Albert, Michael ^c   Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AGFA GEVAERT N V   (Belgium)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital detectors; MTF; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISPLAY DEVICES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOISE ABATEMENT;

DIGITAL DETECTOR; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; EDGE SPREAD FUNCTION; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SIMULATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

LEAD;

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; ERROR; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 21144458392     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1921667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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