Accurate MTF measurement in digital radiography using noise response

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 724-735

  Kuhls Gilcrist, Andrew ^a   Jain, Amit ^a   Bednarek, Daniel R ^a   Hoffmann, Kenneth R ^a   Rudin, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital radiography; Edge; Image quality; Linear systems analysis; Modulation transfer function (MTF); Noise; Noise power spectrum (NPS); Resolution

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (SOLID STATE); IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CASCADED LINEAR SYSTEMS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL X-RAY DETECTOR; EDGE; INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION; NOISE; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; X-RAY IMAGE INTENSIFIERS;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 75749149813     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3284376     Document Type: Article

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