An analytical model of NPS and DQE comparing photon counting and energy integrating detectors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency (DQE); Energy integrating detector; Modulation transfer function (MTF); Noise power spectra (NPS); Optical transfer function (OTF); Photon counting detector; Point spread function (PSF)

Indexed keywords

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATING DETECTORS; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; DETECTORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MODELS; PHOTONS; POWER SPECTRUM; X RAYS;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 78650162416     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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