Technical Note: Further development of a resolution modification routine for the simulation of the modulation transfer function of digital x-ray detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5916-5920

  Konstantinidis, Anastasios C ^a   Olivo, Alessandro ^a   Speller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anisotropic behavior; comb function; digital radiography; image simulation; modulation transfer function

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

2D FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ANISOTROPIC BEHAVIORS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL X-RAY DETECTOR; IMAGE SIMULATIONS; RECTANGULAR FUNCTION; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 80855139823     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3644845     Document Type: Article

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