Use of effective detective quantum efficiency to optimise radiographic exposures for chest imaging with computed radiography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ertan, Ferihan ^a   Mackenzie, Alistair ^a   Urbanczyk, Hannah J ^a   Ranger, Nicole T ^b   Samei, Ehsan ^b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

METR; SCAT

Indexed keywords

AIR KERMA; ANTI-SCATTER GRIDS; CHEST IMAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EFFECTIVE DOSE; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; METR; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; OPTIMISATION; SCAT; SCATTER FRACTIONS;

ALUMINA; PARTICLE DETECTORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749147315     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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