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Paper Abstract
Cone-beam systems designed for breast cancer detection bear a unique radiation dose limitation and are vulnerable to the
additive noise from the detector. Additive noise is the signal fluctuation from detector elements and is independent of the
incident exposure level. In this study, two different approaches (single pixel based and region of interest based) to
measure the additive noise were explored using continuously acquired air images at different exposure levels, with both
raw images and flat-field corrected images. The influence from two major factors, inter-pixel variance and image lag,
were studied. The pixel variance measured from dark images was used as the gold standard (for the entire detector
15.12±1.3 ADU2) for comparison. Image noise propagation through reconstruction procedures was also investigated and
a mathematically derived quadratic relationship between the image noise and the inverse of the radiation dose was
confirmed with experiment data. The additive noise level was proved to affect the CT image noise as the second order
coefficient and thus determines the lower limit of the scan radiation dose, above which the scanner operates at quantum
limited region and utilizes the x-ray photon most efficiently.
Paper Details
Date Published: 10 March 2009
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 7258, Medical Imaging 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging, 725806 (10 March 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.813563
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7258:
Medical Imaging 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging
Ehsan Samei; Jiang Hsieh, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 7258, Medical Imaging 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging, 725806 (10 March 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.813563
Show Author Affiliations
Kai Yang, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Shih-Ying C. Huang, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Shih-Ying C. Huang, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Nathan J. Packard, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
John M. Boone, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
John M. Boone, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7258:
Medical Imaging 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging
Ehsan Samei; Jiang Hsieh, Editor(s)
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