Performance of a high fill factor, indirect detection prototype flat-panel imager for mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 315-327

  El Mohri, Youcef ^a   Antonuk, Larry E ^a   Zhao, Qihua ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Li, Yixin ^a   Du, Hong ^a   Sawant, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Active matrix flat panel imager; Cascaded systems model; Continuous photodiode; Detective quantum efficiency; Digital mammography

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; CESIUM IODIDE; EFFICIENCY; FOOD ADDITIVES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IONIZATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTODIODES; PIXELS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

ACTIVE MATRIX FLAT-PANEL IMAGERS; CASCADED SYSTEM; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIODE; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY;

EID: 33845964617     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2403967     Document Type: Article

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