1. Contrast Threshold of 4 Full Field Digital Mammography Systems Using Different Measurement Methods.
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Astley, Susan M., Brady, Michael, Rose, Chris, Zwiggelaar, Reyer, Carton, A. -K., Bosmans, H., Vanongeval, C., Souverijns, G., Marchal, G., Jacobs, J., Vandenbroucke, D., Pauwels, H., and Nijs, K.
- Abstract
We compared three conspicuity tests applied to four full field digital mammography (FFDM) systems. The tests included: 1) the calculation of noise equivalent quanta (NEQ); 2) contrast-detail analysis with the CDMAM 3.4 phantom and 3) evaluation of the detectability of (simulated) microcal-cifications with specific well-known dimensions in mastectomy images. For each contrast-resolution test method, the exposure, processing and viewing conditions were identical. As a result, the only variable for a given test was the physical performance of the detector. The three test methods each rank the detectors in the same order. The flat-panel detector ranked the best overall, the dual-sided read-out storage phosphor detector ranked second and the single-sided-read-out storage phosphor detectors with 50 μm and 100 μm pixel sizes ranked similarly and were inferior to the other 2 detectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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