Can a fourier-based cascaded-systems analysis describe noise in complex shift-variant spatially sampled detectors?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-88

  Cunningham, I A ^a   Sattarivand, M ^a   Hajdok, G ^a   Yao, J ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cascaded models; Detective quantum efficiency; Flat panel detectors; Noise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CASCADED MODELS; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 3042544892     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.534791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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