Optimisation of chest radiology by computer modelling of image quality measures and patient effective dose
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A set of modelled computed radiography (CR) systems are compared with a reference system. Calculations are performed, which compares the effective dose and a set of figures of merit corresponding to the image quality of both the modelled systems and the reference system. For a nodule with soft tissue corresponding, the signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, is found to decrease with increasing tube voltage. On the other hand, the ratio of the contrast of the nodule compared to the contrast of a rib (nodule-to-rib contrast-ratio) is found to increase with increasing tube voltage.
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