Direct-conversion flat-panel x-ray imaging: reduction of noise by presampling filtration

John A. Rowlands; Winston Guangda Ji; Wei Zhao; Denny L. Y. Lee

doi:10.1117/12.384519

25 April 2000 Direct-conversion flat-panel x-ray imaging: reduction of noise by presampling filtration

John A. Rowlands, Winston Guangda Ji, Wei Zhao, Denny L. Y. Lee

Proceedings Volume 3977, Medical Imaging 2000: Physics of Medical Imaging; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384519
Event: Medical Imaging 2000, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Large area flat panel solid-state detectors are being studied for digital radiography and fluoroscopy. Such systems use active matrix arrays to readout latent charge images created either by direct conversion of x-ray energy to charge in a photoconductor or indirectly using a phosphor and individual photodiodes on the active matrix array. Our work has utilized the direct conversion method because of its simplicity and the higher resolution possible due to the electrostatic collection of secondary quanta. Aliasing of noise occurs in current designs of direct detectors based on amorphous selenium ((alpha) -Se) because of its high intrinsic resolution. This aliasing leads to a decrease in detective quantum efficiency (DQE) as frequency increases. It has been predicted, using a previously developed model of the complete imaging system, that appropriately controlled spatial filtration can reduce this aliased noise and hence increase DQE at the Nyquist frequency, f_NY. Our purpose is to experimentally verify this concept by implementing presampling filtration in a practical flat panel system. An (alpha) -Se based flat panel imager is modified by incorporating an insulating layer between the active matrix and the (alpha) -Se layer to introduce a predetermined amount of presampling burring. The modified imager is evaluated using standard linear analysis tools, modulation transfer function (MTF), noise power spectra (NPS) and DQE(f), and the results are compared to theoretical predictions.

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John A. Rowlands, Winston Guangda Ji, Wei Zhao, and Denny L. Y. Lee "Direct-conversion flat-panel x-ray imaging: reduction of noise by presampling filtration", Proc. SPIE 3977, Medical Imaging 2000: Physics of Medical Imaging, (25 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384519

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