Characterization of a mammographic system based on single photon counting pixel arrays coupled to GaAs x-ray detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1330-1339

  Amendolia, S R ^a,b   Bisogni, M G ^b   Delogu, P ^c   Fantacci, M E ^c   Paternoster, G ^c   Rosso, V ^d   Stefanini, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Digital mammography; image quality; radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; NORMALIZED NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; TRANSFER FUNCTION ANALYSIS;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; PHOTON; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ARSENICALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GALLIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849091408     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3097284     Document Type: Article

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