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Radiographic contrast refers to?

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The difference in DENSITY between areas in the radiographs

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Radiographic contrast depends on what three factors?

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  1. Subject contrast
  2. Film contrast
  3. Fog and scatter
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The difference in x-ray intensity transmitted through one part of the subject compared to another is…

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Subject contrast

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Subject contrast depends on?

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  1. Thickness difference
  2. Density difference
  3. Atomic number (Z)
  4. kVp / quality of beam
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Of the four things that affect subject contrast what are the most important?

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  1. Density
  2. Atomic number
    1. Ex. Muscle (7.4) and fat (5.9) are hard at high kVp but better at low kVp (mammograms)
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Subject contrast equation

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= Ismall/Ilarge

  1. Ex. At 50kVp 25 x-rays get through the thick part and 40 get through the thin

Subject contrast is 40/25 = 1.60 meaning 60% more x-rays make it through

Compare that to 100kVp were 80 and 60 xray make it through. 80/60 = 1.33 or only 33% more thus less contrast

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Short scale contrast

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High contrast at low kVp - everything is either black or white

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Long scale contrast

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Tons of gray scale so limited contrast

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Exposure latitude… what is it and does short scale contrast have more of it or long scale?

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Exposure latitude is the ability to create a proper denisty and contrast image out of a wide range of techniques (wider range of mAs will provide the proper density at a certain kVp)

Long scale (high kVp) allows a wider range of mAs (wide exposure latitude)

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kVp controls what of the following?

  1. Subject contrast
  2. exposure latitude
  3. Density
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Subject contrast and exposure latitude to the LARGEST degree

….though does have some influence on density

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What equation governs how much kVp affects density?

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(kVp highest)4/(kVp lowest)4

Ex. kVp increase from 50 to 60

604/504= 2.07 — doubles density

THIS EFFECT changes as kVp increases

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Amount of scatter increases with what?

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  1. Increase in thickness
  2. Field of view size
  3. Energy of x-ray beam (High kVp)
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Amount of scatter is decreased with?

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  1. Collimation
  2. Grid
  3. Air gap
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Scatter, true fog and exposure fog(accidental exposure to light of film) reduce what?

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Radiographich contrast by decreasing film contrast

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True fog is what?

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Film grains that are developed even when not exposed… Produces unwanted density

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Image clarity is made up of two parts

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Contrast and image quality

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What is image quality?

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The ability for the film to reproduce perfectly each point on an object to the screen

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Image quality is influenced by?

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  1. Radiographic mottle
  2. Sharpness
  3. Resolution
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Radiographic mottle is made up of Structure mottle, Quantum mottle and film graniness… which one is the only one of importance.

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Quantum mottle

Film graininess is the nonhomogenous arrangement of silver grains in gelatin and can only be seen under lens microscope

Structure mottle is imperfections in the intensifying screen and really don’t matter.

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Quantum mottle is?

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The statistical fluctuation in the number of x-ray (quanta) per unit area absorbed by the intensifier screen

FEWER QUANTA = MORE MOTTLE

The umbrella and rain example

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To see quantum mottle you must have a good quality radiograph with good contrast, or a poor one?

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Good quality… because if it is shit you won’t see anything anyways

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Quantum mottle is also called?

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Noise

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High contrast images are limited by what?

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Sharpness

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Low contrast images are limited by?

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Noise - don’t have much contrast so noise can really influence the resolution of the image.

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How to increase speed withOUT increasing noise?
Increase phosphor thickness Use phosphor with higher absorption coefficient
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What is the only factor determining noise in screens?
The number of photons used by the screen
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Faster the intensifier, what happens to sharpness?
Decreases... cuase usually using thicker screens and therefore more diffusion of light causing less sharp images.
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Increase speed with increase in noise is done by?
Use of phosphor with high x-ray to light conversion Faster film (rare earth's = more mottle) Why? The intensifier screen "USES" less electrons
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Sharpness is?
The ability to define an edge
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Types of unsharpness
Geometric Motion Absorption Screen
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How do contrast and sharpness affect one another?
If high contrast, then unsharp edges will be seen If low contrast, then sharp edges will NOT be seen
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Resolving power is?
The ability to record separate images of small objects that are close together
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Does an 8 line pair/mm film screen system have really good resolution at 6 or 4 line pair/mm objects?
NO.. well depends... have 8 lp/mm does not tell you have well it will work for object lower than that.
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What does the line spread function measure?
The amount of light diffusion by an intensifying screen causing blurred images
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Faster screens have higher or lower LSF?
Higher.. more spread.. thus less sharpness and less resolution
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What is modulation transfer function?
objective measurement of the combined effects of sharpness and resolution Other terms... how much information is transferred from x-ray image to detecting system information recorded/information received
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As the demand for higher spatial resolution is put on the system.. what happens to MTF?
It goes down or decrease.. getting shitter and shitter until it can't distinquinsh two objects and therefore all information is lost by one. Lost information is "modulation of the transfer of image"
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Why use MTF?
Compare systmes
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How to get the MTF of the whole x-ray system?
Multiply the MTF of the individual parts.
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MTF can never be more than what number?
1.0
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What is the wiener spectrum?
The measure of the total noise recorded by the film (grain noise and quantum noise) How well a screen can record noise at a given spatial frequency.
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The ability of a screen system to record noise decreases with spatial frequency (resolution) increasing or decreasing
INCREASING.. same as MTF
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Spatial resolution is?
The ability to differentiate between small objects
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What usually limits spatial resolution in a digital system?
Pixel size (Nyquist theory)
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Spatial Doman vs frequency domain
Spatial Domain 1. What we see on the computer screen and what is taken in by the detector as information 2. mm and seconds Frequency Domain 1. Transformed to this so computers can compute raw data faster 2. cycles/mm and cycles/second
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Point spread function is what?
Basic measurement of resolution properties of a system 1. How a system responds to a point input 2. 2-D 3. Degree of spreading is what is measured - BLURRING 4. Small hole in attenuating metal is used to cover the detector IF all the PSF of each dexel is the same then it is called stationary or shift invariant If all the PSF of each dexel are different - nonstationary
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Line spread function?
Another measurement to see how your system is doing Practical assessment of spatial resolution Measure the width of the line and see how it blurrs - thinner the better
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Edge spread Function?
Same as PSF and LSF but uses a sharp edge Meaures scatter and glare
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What is convolution?
Math that is used to reconstruct images so that they are smooth or edge enhancing Basically you avg out the outlyers
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Kernel?
The type of convolution that is performed ie bone vs ST vs lung
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Another word for convolution or kernel is?
boxcar averaging or running average
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If a kernel does nothing to change the raw data and the data stays the same after the kernel is run.. it is called?
Delta function
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What happens to spatial frequency when RECT increases?
Spatial frequency decreases... think of RECT as the size of the detector. The bigger the size the less it can differentiate.
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Fourier transform is what?
A way to take spatial domain information and change it into frequency domain. It also takes a single spatial domain input and breaks it down to the different frequencies that make it up. This allows you to compare where singals are coming from, which ones are weak and which are strong.
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Higher frequencies or small objects have a higher or lower rate of resolution loss in imaging systems when compared to low frequencies or large objects?
Resolution loss in an imaging system is larger in small objects or high freq
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Nyquist Freq.
The highest incident freq that can be detected by a system Nf = 1/2 (sampling rate) Ex. If a detector pitch is 0.05mm what is your Nf? 0.05/1 x 1/2 = 1/0.1 = 10
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Aliasing?
If an incident frequency is higher than the nyquist freq. This incident freq is then recorded as a lower freq that does not break the nyquist freq
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Contrast resolution is made of?
Grain Noise Electronic noise Structure noise - noise based on how the detector reads out the image Anatomical noise Quantum noise
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Precision is limited by what?
quantum... more information or signal.. the more precise you will be
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Normal distribution vs Poisson?
ND has a mean and standard deviation Poisson only has a mean and the SD is derived from that mean by square rooting the mean They are almost identical
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In normal distribution.. how much (percentage) of the data is in each standard deviations?
SD 1 = 68% SD 2 = 95% SD 3 = 99%
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Contrast is made up of what types?
1. Subject 1. Density 2. thickness 3. kVp 4. Z 2. Detector 1. Think of the dynamic range curve and how well a system can handle differences in contrast 3. Display 1. Display units can only produce 8-10 bit of information while the image is transmitter in 8-14 bit. Therefore you will gain contrast and loose gray scale when returning to display
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What is a LUT?
Look-up table This is window and leveling. Basically the display cannot display the entire gray scale of the image. Therefore you use a LUT to decide what range of grayscale you want. This all depends on what you are looking for or at.
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Are contrast and spatial resolution dependent on eachtoher\>?
No..... the are not dependent on eachother but they do affect an image together. Think of the Contrast detail diagrams (circles of different contrast and detail)
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Detective quantum efficiency?
How well a system transmits your SNR from input to screen.. what it adds from it and what it takes away.
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What the fuck does gestalt mean?

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