A simple edge device method for determining the presampling Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of flat field digital detectors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1191-1198

  Wang, Beilei ^a   Barner, Kenneth ^a   Lee, Denny ^b   Rodricks, Brian ^b   Liu, Chuande ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Hologic Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge method; Edge spread function (ESF); Line spread function (LSF); Modulation transfer function (MTF); Slit method

Indexed keywords

EDGE METHOD; EDGE SPREAD FUNCTION (ESF); LINE SPREAD FUNCTION (LSF); SLIT METHOD;

DIGITAL DEVICES; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844544080     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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