Detector evaluation of a prototype amorphous selenium-based full field digital mammography system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 478-485

  Jesneck, Jonathan L ^a,b   Saunders, Robert S ^a,c   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b,c   Xia, Jessie Q ^a,b,c   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency; Digital imaging; Image quality; Mammography; Modulation transfer function; Normalized noise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL DETECTORS; NORMALIZED NOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

ALGORITHMS; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CALIBRATION; DETECTORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SELENIUM; TUMORS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844489914     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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