Lubberts effect in columnar phosphors

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3122-3131

  Badano, Aldo ^a   Gagne, Robert M ^a   Gallas, Brandon D ^a   Jennings, Robert J ^a   Boswell, Jonathan S ^a   Myers, Kyle J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesium Iodide; Columnar phosphor; Modulation transfer function; Monte Carlo simulation; Noise transfer; Phosphor blur

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CESIUM IODIDE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

COLUMNAR PHOSPHOR; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY DETECTORS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; NOISE TRANSFER; NOISE TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOSPHOR BLUR; SIGNAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

CESIUM ION; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; LUBBERTS EFFECT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 9244230065     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1796151     Document Type: Article

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