A comparative analysis of OTF, NPS, and DQE in energy integrating and photon counting digital x-ray detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6480-6495

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

detective quantum efficiency (DQE); energy integrating detector; noise power spectra (NPS); optical transfer function (OTF); photon counting detector

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; ADDITIVES; CALCULATIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTONS; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM NOISE; WHITE NOISE; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

ADDITIVE WHITE NOISE; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL X-RAY DETECTOR; FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT; INTEGRATING DETECTORS; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 78650122269     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3505014     Document Type: Review

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