Solid-state fluorosopic imager for high-resolution angiography: Physical characteristics of an 8 cmx8 cm experimental prototype

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1462-1472

  Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Karellas, Andrew ^a   Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a   Onishi, Steven K ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fairchild Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Charge coupled devices (CCD); Detective quantum efficiency (DQE); Fluoroscopy; Presampling modulation transfer function (MTF)

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CESIUM IODIDE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE; FLUOROSCOPY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTERVENTIONAL IMAGING; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PRESAMPLING MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF); SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOLID STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; X RAY; BIOPHYSICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOPHYSICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 3042636466     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1750992     Document Type: Article

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