Resolution and noise measurements of five CRT and LCD medical displays

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 308-319

  Saunders, Robert S ^a,b   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cathode Ray Tube; Image quality; Liquid Crystal Display; Medical Display; Modulation Transfer Function; Normalized Noise Power Spectrum

Indexed keywords

CATHODE RAY TUBES; CATHODES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LUMINANCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; POWER SPECTRUM; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAYS; CATHODE-RAY TUBE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES CAMERA; LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY; LUMINANCE VARIATION; MEDICAL DISPLAY; NOISEPOWER SPECTRUMS (NPS); NORMALIZED NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; PIXEL STRUCTURE; PREWHITENING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE CAMERA; DISPLAY SYSTEM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 31844450155     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2150777     Document Type: Article

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