Impact of additive noise on system performance of a digital X-ray imaging system

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-73

  Zhang, Da ^a   Rong, John ^b   Chen, Wei R ^c   Gao, Feng ^d   Xu, Kexin ^d   Wu, Xizeng ^e   Liu, Hong ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive noise; Detective quantum efficiency; Digital X ray imaging; Exposure timenoise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

ADDITIVE NOISE; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL X-RAY IMAGING; EXPOSURE TIMENOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY;

ARTICLE; COOLING; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; X RAY;

EID: 33846372609     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.884643     Document Type: Article

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