Calculation of OTF, NPS, and DQE for oblique x-ray incidence on turbid granular phosphors

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 436-443

  Acciavatti, Raymond J ^a   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

detective quantum efficiency (DQE); Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT); modulation transfer function (MTF); noise power spectra (NPS); oblique x ray incidence; optical transfer function (OTF); Swank information factor (AS); turbid granular phosphor

Indexed keywords

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; INFORMATION FACTOR; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE POWER SPECTRA (NPS); NOISE-POWER SPECTRA;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; LIGHT EMISSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; POWER SPECTRUM; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77954636153     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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