Effective detective quantum efficiency for two mammography systems: Measurement and comparison against established metrics

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Salvagnini, Elena ^a,b   Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Struelens, Lara ^b   Marshall, Nicholas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; DQE; EDQE; NPWE; SdNR

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; GEOMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; EDQE; EFFECTIVE DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES (EDQE); NPWE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); SDNR;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84885736015     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4820362     Document Type: Article

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