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http://dx.doi.org/10.17946/JRST.2016.39.4.20

An Evaluation For Spatial Resolution, Using A Single Target On A Medical Image  

Lee, Kyung-Sung (Department of Radiotechnology, Cheju Halla University)
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Journal of radiological science and technology / v.39, no.4, 2016 , pp. 631-636 More about this Journal
Abstract
Hitherto, spatial resolution has commonly been evaluated by test patterns or phantoms built on some specific distances (from close to far) between two objects (or double targets). This evaluation method's shortcoming is that resolution is restricted to target distances of phantoms made for test. Therefore, in order to solve the problem, this study proposes and verifies a new method to efficiently test spatial resolution with a single target. For the research I used PSF and JND to propose an idea to measure spatial resolution. After that, I made experiments by commonly used phantoms to verify my new evaluation hypothesis inferred from the above method. To analyse the hypothesis, I used LabVIEW program and got a line pixel from digital image. The result was identical to my spatial-resolution hypothesis inferred from a single target. The findings of the experiment proves only a single target can be enough to relatively evaluate spatial resolution on a digital image. In other words, the limit of the traditional spatial-resolution evaluation method, based on double targets, can be overcome by my new evaluation one using a single target.
Keywords
spatial resolution; single target; PSF; JND;
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