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X-RAY DETECTORS I

DQE(f) of an amorphous-silicon flat-panel x-ray detector: detector parameter influences and measurement methodology
Paul R. Granfors and Richard Aufrichtig
pp. 2-13
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Optimization of key building blocks for a large-area radiographic and fluoroscopic dynamic digital x-ray detector based on a-Si:H/CsI:Tl flat panel technology
Thierry Ducourant, Marc Michel, Gerard Vieux, Tobias Peppler, J. C. Trochet, Reiner F. Schulz, Raoul J. M. Bastiaens, and Falko Busse
pp. 14-25
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Charge collection and capacitance in continuous-film flat-panel detectors
Marcelo Mulato, Francesco Lemmi, Rachel Lau, Jeng-Ping Lu, Jackson Ho, Steve E. Ready, Jeffrey T. Rahn, and Robert A. Street
pp. 26-37
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Experimental evaluation of a-Se and CdTe flat-panel x-ray detectors for digital radiography and fluoroscopy
Susumu Adachi, Naoyuki Hori, Kenji Sato, Satoshi Tokuda, Toshiyuki Sato, Kazuhiro Uehara, Yoshihiro Izumi, Hisashi Nagata, Youji Yoshimura, and Satoshi Yamada
pp. 38-47
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Radiological x-ray response of polycrystalline mercuric-iodide detectors
Michael M. Schieber, Haim Hermon, Robert A. Street, Steve E. Ready, Asaf Zuck, Alexander I. Vilensky, Leonid Melekhov, Rubil Shatunovsky, Evgenie Meerson, and Yehezkel Saado
pp. 48-55
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IMAGING PHYSICS

Geometric sensitivity calculation of three-headed gamma-camera-based coincidence detection
Yves D'Asseler, Stefaan Vandenberghe, Michel Koole, Luc Bouwens, Rik Van de Walle, Rudi A. Dierckx, and Ignace L. Lemahieu
pp. 58-67
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High-sensitivity collimator simulation for high-resolution radioisotopic imager
Christophe Dornier, Annie Pousse, Michel Parmentier, Richard Delaite, and Bruno Kastler
pp. 68-76
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Spatially varying detectability for optical tomography
Angel R. Pineda, Harrison H. Barrett, and Simon R. Arridge
pp. 77-83
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Novel detector for portal imaging in radiation therapy
Janina Ostling, M. Wallmark, Anders Brahme, Mats Danielsson, Christian Iacobaeus, P. Fonte, and Vladimir N. Peskov
pp. 84-95
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Dual-energy coronary angiography in pigs using a Gd contrast agent
Stefan Fiedler, Helene Elleaume, Geraldine Le Duc, Christian Nemoz, Thierry Brochard, Michel Renier, Bernard Bertrand, Francois Esteve, Jean-Francois Le Bas, Pekka Suortti, and William C. Thomlinson
pp. 96-103
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FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGING

Experimentally validated theoretical model of avalanche multiplication x-ray noise in amorphous selenium
Dylan C. Hunt, Brian Lui, and John A. Rowlands
pp. 106-116
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Simulation of the image quality of an a-Si flat x-ray detector system in low-dose fluoroscopic applications
Tom J. C. Bruijns, Thijs Adriaansz, Arnold R. Cowen, Andrew G. Davies, Stephen M. Kengyelics, Kourosh Kiani, Han Kroon, and Hans A. Luijendijk
pp. 117-127
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Direct selenium x-ray detector for fluoroscopy, R&F, and radiography
Martin Choquette, Henri Rougeot, Jean-Pierre Martin, Luc Laperriere, Ziad Shukri, and Brad T. Polischuk
pp. 128-136
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Evaluation of a fluoroscopy mode for a CCD-based radiographic sensor
Regis Guillemaud and Laurent Simon
pp. 137-144
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Flat x-ray image intensifier system for real-time fluoroscopy
Hiroshi Onihashi, Hiroshi Aida, Kiyumi No, Takashi Noji, Yuichi Murakoshi, Keiichi Saito, and Junsuke Koma
pp. 145-150
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MAMMOGRAPHY I

Semiconductor materials for digital mammography
James G. Mainprize, Nancy L. Ford, Shi Yin, Tumay O. Tumer, Eli Gordon, William J. Hamilton, and Martin J. Yaffe
pp. 152-158
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Effects of pixel/aperture sizes on image properties in digital mammography
Xinming Liu, Chris C. Shaw, John X. Rong, and Gary J. Whitman
pp. 159-166
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Large-format high-performance CCD sensor for medical x-ray applications
William Des Jardin, Christopher Parks, Hung Doan, Neal Kurfiss, and Keith Wetzel
pp. 167-175
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Quantitative analysis of performance of selenium flat-panel detector for interventional mammography
Anne Debrie, Brad T. Polischuk, Henri Rougeot, Marc Hansroul, Eric Poliquin, Mario Caron, Kerwin Wong, Ziad Shukri, and Jean-Pierre Martin
pp. 176-184
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Development of a novel high-resolution direct conversion x-ray detector
Eric L. Gingold, Denny L. Y. Lee, Lothar S. Jeromin, Brian G. Rodricks, Michael G. Hoffberg, and Cornell L. Williams
pp. 185-193
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MICROSCOPY

Synchrotron radiation microtomography of lung specimens
Kenji Shimizu, Junpei Ikezoe, Hirohiko Ikura, Hidemi Ebara, Tomofumi Nagareda, Naoto Yagi, Keiji Umetani, Kentaro Uesugi, Kyoko Okada, Atsuro Sugita, and Minoru Tanaka
pp. 196-204
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Solid state VRX CT detector
Frank A. DiBianca, Roman Melnyk, Aniket Sambari, Lawrence M. Jordan, Joseph S. Laughter, and Ping Zou
pp. 205-210
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MAMMOGRAPHY II

Estimation of volumetric breast density for breast cancer risk prediction
Olga Pawluczyk, Martin J. Yaffe, Norman F. Boyd, and Roberta A. Jong
pp. 212-219
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Determination of the x-ray intensity pattern in mammography with very high-spatial resolution
Christoph Hoeschen, Andreas Fessel, Egbert Buhr, and Wilfried Doehring
pp. 220-230
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Compact gamma-ray probe for breast imaging based on a 5-inch PSPMT and a single NaI crystal scintillator
Laurent Fagot, Michel Parmentier, Annie Pousse, Christophe Dornier, and Bruno Kastler
pp. 231-238
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Dose-efficient system for digital mammography
Mats Danielsson, Hans Bornefalk, Bjoern Cederstroem, Valery Chmill, Bruce H. Hasegawa, Mats Lundqvist, David R. Nygren, and Tamas Tabar
pp. 239-249
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Theoretical investigation of advanced design active matrix flat-panel imagers for mammography
Kyung-Wook Jee, Larry E. Antonuk, Youcef El-Mohri, Codrin Cionca, Manat Maolinbay, Samer C. Nassif, and Qihua Zhao
pp. 250-256
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COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND MRI

Multislice single-filtering helical-weighting algorithm
Guy M. Besson
pp. 258-269
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Resampling MR signals in projection reconstruction MRI
Guy E. Lateur, Rik Van de Walle, and Ignace L. Lemahieu
pp. 270-279
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Fourier-based approach to interpolation in helical CT exploiting redundant fan-beam information
Patrick J. La Riviere and Xiaochuan Pan
pp. 280-291
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Estimation-reconstruction approach for image reconstruction in halfscan computed tomography
Xiaochuan Pan
pp. 292-297
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Recursive correction algorithm for detector decay characteristics in CT
Jiang Hsieh, O. E. Gurmen, and Kevin F. King
pp. 298-305
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NEW FRONTIERS

Rapid microwave imaging of living tissues
Alain Joisel and Jean-Charles Bolomey
pp. 320-330
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Experimental and theoretical optimization of laser-produced x-ray spectra for vascular imaging
Andrzej Krol, Zhiming Jiang, Zahia Ichalalene, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Charles C. Chamberlain, and Ernest M. Scalzetti
pp. 331-341
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Crystal diffraction lens for medical imaging
Robert K. Smither and Dante E. Roa
pp. 342-352
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Tomographic imaging of bone composition using coherently scattered x rays
Deidre L. Batchelar, W. Dabrowski, and Ian A. Cunningham
pp. 353-361
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VOLUME IMAGING

Dynamic 3D computed tomography scanner for vascular imaging
Mark K. Lee, David W. Holdsworth, and Aaron Fenster
pp. 364-375
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Applications of matrix inversion tomosynthesis
Richard J. Warp, Devon J. Godfrey, and James T. Dobbins III
pp. 376-383
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Three-dimensional breast image reconstruction from a limited number of views
Thomas G. McCauley, Alexander X. Stewart, Martin J. Stanton, Tao Wu, and Walter C. Phillips
pp. 384-395
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Real-time flat-panel detector-based-volume tomographic angiography imaging: detector evaluation
Ruola Ning, Richard E. Colbeth, Biao Chen, Rongfeng Yu, David L. Conover, Yi Ning, and Chuck Blouir
pp. 396-407
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Cone-beam CT with a flat-panel imager: noise considerations for fully 3D computed tomography
Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen and David A. Jaffray
pp. 408-416
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X-RAY DETECTORS II

High-resolution direct-detection x-ray imagers
Robert A. Street, Steve E. Ready, Jeffrey T. Rahn, Marcelo Mulato, Kanai S. Shah, Paul R. Bennett, Ping Mei, Jeng-Ping Lu, Raj B. Apte, Jackson Ho, Koenraad Van Schuylenbergh, Francesco Lemmi, James B. Boyce, Per Nylen, Michael M. Schieber, and Haim Hermon
pp. 418-428
Abstract     Full Text:  [  PDF (1604 kB)  ]

Image quality evaluation of a selenium-based flat-panel digital x-ray detector system based on animal studies
Shinichi Yamada, Hiroko Umazaki, Akihito Takahashi, Michitaka Honda, Kunio Shiraishi, Stephen Rudin, Daniel R. Bednarek, Chang-Ying J. Yang, Zhou Wang, and Anant Gopal
pp. 429-436
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Evaluation of image quality of a new CCD-based system for chest imaging
Patrik Sund, Susanne Kheddache, Lars G. Mansson, Magnus Bath, and Ulf Tylen
pp. 437-443
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OPTIMIZATION OF IMAGE QUALITY

Direct-conversion flat-panel x-ray imaging: reduction of noise by presampling filtration
John A. Rowlands, Winston G. Ji, Wei Zhao, and Denny L. Y. Lee
pp. 446-455
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Image quality optimization using an x-ray spectra model-based optimization method
Clarence L. Gordon III
pp. 456-465
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Optimization of MTF and DQE in magnification radiography: a theoretical analysis
Chris C. Shaw, Xinming Liu, Michael R. Lemacks, John X. Rong, and Gary J. Whitman
pp. 466-475
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Filtered gain calibration and its effect on DQE and image quality in digital imaging systems
Brian G. Rodricks, Denny L. Y. Lee, Michael G. Hoffberg, and Cornell L. Williams
pp. 476-485
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POSTER SESSION

Importance of photon interaction data for medical imaging and images of soft materials using x-ray microtomography
Donepudi V. Rao, S. M. Seltzer, and John H. Hubbell
pp. 488-497
Abstract     Full Text:  [  PDF (445 kB)  ]

Time-domain 2D fluorescence lifetime microscopic measurement
Jun L. Qu, Hanben Niu, Ji Li, Xiaomei Kuo, and Junlan Zhou
pp. 498-505
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Influence of scattered x rays on object sharpness of radiographs
Hidetaka Arimura, Takuji Date, Kaoru Morikawa, Hideaki Kubota, Masao Matsumoto, and Hitoshi Kanamori
pp. 506-513
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Effect of scatter radiation on image noise in cone-beam CT
Masahiro Endo, Takanori Tsunoo, and Nobuyuki Nakamori
pp. 514-521
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Observation and analysis of microcirculation using high-spatial-resolution image detectors and synchrotron radiation
Keiji Umetani, Naoto Yagi, Yoshio Suzuki, Yasuo Ogasawara, Fumihiko Kajiya, Takeshi Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Tachibana, Masami Goto, Takenori Yamashita, Shigeki Imai, and Yasumasa Kajihara
pp. 522-533
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Region of interest (ROI) microangiography: imager development
Stephen Rudin, Daniel R. Bednarek, Chang-Ying J. Yang, Arundhuti Chattopadhyay, Anant Gopal, Ye Wu, Zhou Wang, Daryl Nazareth, and Kenneth R. Hoffmann
pp. 534-541
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Cascade gamma-gamma tomography and angular correlation measurements
Nicholas M. Spyrou, M. Esmail Mesbahi, and Stephen N. Mallion
pp. 542-549
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Radiographic technique factors and imaging performance in digital mammography
Walter Huda, Guoying Qu, Zhenxue Jing, Barbara G. Steinbach, and Janice C. Honeyman-Buck
pp. 550-558
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Retrospective correction of B₀-field-induced geometric distortions in multislice echo planar images: a 3D solution
Roderick W. McColl and Edward A. Coburn
pp. 559-569
Abstract     Full Text:  [  PDF (3206 kB)  ]

Processing of CT sinograms acquired using a VRX detector
Lawrence M. Jordan, Frank A. DiBianca, Ping Zou, Joseph S. Laughter, and Herbert D. Zeman
pp. 570-579
Abstract     Full Text:  [  PDF (488 kB)  ]

Novel algorithm for measuring the MTF of a digital radiographic system with a CCD array detector
Xinhua Cao, H. K. Huang, and Shyhliang A. Lou
pp. 580-589
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Improvement of image quality in CR mammography by detection of emissions from dual sides of an imaging plate
Satoshi Arakawa, Hiroaki Yasuda, Katsuhiro Kohda, and Toshiaki Suzuki
pp. 590-600
Abstract     Full Text:  [  PDF (399 kB)  ]

Scatter rejection methods in megavoltage imaging with an amorphous-silicon flat-panel array
Burkhard A. Groh, Lothar Spies, Bernd M. Hesse, and Thomas Bortfeld
pp. 601-608
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Effect of fat content on single- and dual-energy CT measurements of bone mineral: determination using a new system of tissue-mimicking phantom materials
Michael S. Westmore and Masahjiko Sato
pp. 609-619
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Distortion correction table compression for volume x-ray CT applications
Ilmar A. Hein, Michael D. Silver, and Satoru Oishi
pp. 620-631
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Effects of x-ray spectrum on the NPS of a computed radiography system
Kenneth A. Fetterly and Nicholas J. Hangiandreou
pp. 632-639
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New ultrasound pulse-echo method for measuring the thickness of thin membranes
Sidney Leeman, Andrew J. Healey, and Eduardo T. Costa
pp. 640-646
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Precision fabrication of two-dimensional antiscatter grids
Cha-Mei Tang, Kevin Fischer, Bidhan Chadburi, Henry Guckel, Thomas R. Fewell, Robert J. Jennings, Rebecca Fahrig, David A. Jaffray, and Martin J. Yaffe
pp. 647-657
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Quantitative evaluation of amorphous selenium (a-Se) for region-of-interest (ROI) fluoroscopy
Parinaz Massoumzadeh, Stephen Rudin, and Daniel R. Bednarek
pp. 658-669
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Use of Wiener filtering in the measurement of the two-dimensional modulation transfer function
David A. Reimann, Holly A. Jacobs, and Ehsan Samei
pp. 670-680
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Two-dimensional model of electromagnetic wave propagation in the volume holographic recording using photorefractive polymer
Shahram Shiri, Murray H. Loew, Richard G. Lyon, and Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj
pp. 681-690
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Quantification and correction of intensity nonuniformities in low-field MRI
Juan M. Parra Robles, Evelio R. Gonzalez, Ilse Berdellans, and William Dominquez
pp. 691-699
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