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Performance evaluation of computed radiography systems
- Source :
- Medical Physics. 28:361-371
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2001.
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Abstract
- Recommended methods to test the performance of computed radiography (CR) digital radiographic systems have been recently developed by the AAPM Task Group No. 10. Included are tests for dark noise, uniformity, exposure response, laser beam function, spatial resolution, low-contrast resolution, spatial accuracy, erasure thoroughness, and throughput. The recommendations may be used for acceptance testing of new CR devices as well as routine performance evaluation checks of devices in clinical use. The purpose of this short communication is to provide a tabular summary of the tests recommended by the AAPM Task Group, delineate the technical aspects of the tests, suggest quantitative measures of the performance results, and recommend uniform quantitative criteria for the satisfactory performance of CR devices. The applicability of the acceptance criteria is verified by tests performed on CR systems in clinical use at five different institutions. This paper further clarifies the recommendations with respect to the beam filtration to be used for exposure calibration of the system, and the calibration of automatic exposure control systems.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Phantoms, Imaging
business.industry
Computer science
Image quality
Lasers
Radiography
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Sensitivity and Specificity
Reliability engineering
Calibration
medicine
Medical physics
Noise (video)
Computed radiography
business
Automatic exposure control
Digital radiography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00942405
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medical Physics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....997f6c2e10eee8f3e511c5b391a5668c