Image performance of a new amorphous selenium flat panel x-ray detector designed for digital breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1282-1290

  Cheung, L K ^a   Jing, Z ^a   Bogdanovich, S ^a   Golden, K ^a   Robinson, S ^a   Beliaevskaia, E ^a   Parikh, S ^a  

^a HOLOGIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous selenium; Direct conversion; DQE; Flat panel detector; Ghosting; Lag; Mammography; MTF; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SELENIUM; X RAYS;

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; DIRECT CONVERSION; DQE; FLAT-PANEL DETECTOR; GHOSTING; LAG; MTF; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844471613     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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