NDLI: Imaging characteristics of the direct and mobile indirect digital radiographic systems

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Author	Hyo-Min Cho Hee-Joung Kim Chang-Lae Lee Sora Nam Ji-Young Jung
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Yonsei Univ., Wonju (Hyo-Min Cho; Hee-Joung Kim; Chang-Lae Lee; Sora Nam; Ji-Young Jung)
Abstract	The clinical applications of the current digital radiographic (DR) systems are rapidly growing. With the recent advances in electronic and ubiquitous healthcare systems using digital imaging modalities, the interest of researchers in developing a mobile digital-imaging system for teleradiologic applications in remote areas is growing. These authors recently installed a mobile indirect digital radiographic (IDR) system in their laboratory and conducted this study to evaluate its characteristics. The characteristics of the general direct digital radiographic (DDR) system that was also installed in these authors' laboratory were likewise studied to determine the difference between the two systems. The performances of the two DR systems were evaluated by measuring their modulation transfer function (MTF), noise power spectrum (NPS), and detective quantum efficiency (DQE). For these measurements, two radiographic systems were used; a DR-1000 (TOSHIBA E7239X generator with a Direct Radiography Corp. DR-1000 detector) and an Alpha-R4000 (LISTEM Mobix-1000 generator with a Teleoptic PRA Alpha-R4000 detector). The imaging characteristics of the two systems were measured using the IEC- 61267-defined RQA5 (kVp: 74, additional filtration: 21 mmAl) radiographic condition. The results for the general DDR system, MTF at 10% and DQE values using 1.4 mR at Ocycles/mm were measured as 5.37 cycles/mm and 24%, respectively. The NPS curves were almost constant at the wide range of the spatial frequencies. For the mobile IDR system, MTF at 10% and DQE values using 1.3 mR at Ocycles/mm were measured as 2.4 cycles/mm and 10%, respectively. The NPS curves gradually decreased at frequencies above 0.25 cycles/mm. The DQE of the general DDR system linearly decreased as a function of the spatial frequencies, but that of the mobile IDR system exponentially decreased. The DQEs of the two systems differed significantly at different radiation doses. The results suggested that the actual teleradiologic imaging applications of the mobile IDR system requires further studies in real situations.
Starting Page	3840
Ending Page	3846
File Size	216346
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424409228
ISSN	10957863
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436958
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-10-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Radiography Frequency Detectors Medical services Digital images Performance evaluation Power measurement Noise measurement Transfer functions Filtration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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