Assessment of flat panel LCD primary class display performance based on AAPM TG 18 acceptance protocol

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2155-2164

  Jung, Haijo ^a   Kim, Hee Joung ^a   Kang, Won Suk ^a   Yoo, Sun Kook ^a   Fujioka, Kiyoto ^b   Hasegawa, Mikio ^b   Samei, Ehsan ^c  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Totoku Electric Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AAPM TG18; Acceptance testing; Flat panel display device; PACS

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL DEVICES; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; GLARE; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LUMINANCE; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

AAPM TG18; ACCEPTANCE TESTING; ANGULAR DEPENDENCIES; LIGHT-BLOCKING DEVICE; LUMINANCE UNIFORMITY; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PACS); TELESCOPIC PHOTOMETER;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOCUMENTATION; GLARE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIQUID CRYSTAL; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY; LUMINANCE; PHOTOMETER; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 3142695422     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1764946     Document Type: Article

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