Abstract
The primary purpose of this paper is to show how Digital Subtraction Radiography (DSR) can be used to demonstrate the fundamental relationships between image detectability and the factors which are most responsible for its behaviour (namely, scatter, quantum noise, image blurring whether due to the focal spot or photon detection mechanisms, and magnification). The authors use Digital Subtraction Radiography (DSR) as a vehicle to clarify, simplify and correct some contemporary notions of the physics and psychophysics of radiological image detection.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Editors | Roger H. Schneider, Samuel J.III Dwyer |
| Place of Publication | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| Pages | 41-51 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Volume | 454 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0892524898 |
| State | Published - 1984 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Condensed Matter Physics
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Zweig, H. J., Hines, H. H., & Seibert, J. A. (1984). INFORMATION DETECTION IN DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY. In R. H. Schneider, & S. J. III. Dwyer (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 454, pp. 41-51). SPIE.