Penalty on the detective quantum efficiency from off-axis incident x rays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-118

  Hajdok, George ^a   Cunningham, Ian A ^b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency; Oblique incident x rays

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM (NPS); OBLIQUE INCIDENT X RAYS; X-RAY IMAGES;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 3042641712     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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