Physical evaluation of a high frame rate, extended dynamic range flat panel detector for real-time cone beam computed tomography applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 591-599

  Boyce, Sarah J ^a,b,c   Chawla, Amarpreet ^a,d   Samei, Ehsan ^a,d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Computed tomography; Detective quantum efficiency; Flat panel detector; Lag; Modulation transfer function; Noise power spectrum; Temporal MTF

Indexed keywords

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS (FPD); LAG; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; TEMPORAL MTF;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BEAM LEAD DEVICES; COSTS; DETECTORS; IMAGE QUALITY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844442620     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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