Measurements of the noise power spectrum for digital x-ray imaging devices

DS Kim - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. The noise characteristics of digital x-ray imaging devices are determined by
contributions such as photon noise, electronic noise, and fixed pattern noise, and can be …

High‐precision noise power spectrum measurements in digital radiography imaging

DS Kim - Medical Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Accurately and precisely estimating the noise power spectrum (NPS) is important
for characterizing the performance of a radiography detector and helpful for improving the …

Infrared and visible image fusion and denoising via ℓ2− ℓp norm minimization

L Liu, L Xu, H Fang - Signal Processing, 2020 - Elsevier
Most traditional infrared and visible image fusion methods often ignore noise in acquisition
or transmission and their performance inevitably decreases in practical applications. To …

Noise power spectrum of the fixed pattern noise in digital radiography detectors

DS Kim, E Kim - Medical Physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The fixed pattern noise in radiography image detectors is caused by various
sources. Multiple readout circuits with gate drivers and charge amplifiers are used to …

Signal lag measurements based on temporal correlations

DS Kim, E Lee - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In fluoroscopic imaging, we can acquire x-ray image sequences using a flat-panel dynamic
radiography detector. Because of the charge trapping at photodiodes, lag signals occur at …

Nonlinear lag correction based on the autoregressive model for dynamic flat-panel detectors

E Lee, DS Kim - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lag signal problems occur in acquiring X-ray image sequences from dynamic flat-panel
detectors due to amorphous pixel photodiodes and incomplete readouts. Based on a linear …

Estimation of zero-frequency noise power density in digital imaging

DS Kim, E Lee - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noise power spectrum (NPS) at zero frequency can efficiently represent noise properties of
imaging systems. However, estimations of zero-frequency NPS are susceptible to distortion …

Measurement of the lag correction factor in low-dose fluoroscopic imaging

DS Kim, E Lee - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lag signals occur at images sequentially acquired from a flat-panel (FP) dynamic detector in
fluoroscopic imaging due to charge trapping in photodiodes and incomplete readouts. This …

Convex combination of images from dual-layer detectors for high detective quantum efficiencies

DS Kim - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: In this paper, a novel dual-layer detector is considered to acquire X-ray images of
high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as well as detective quantum efficiency (DQE) especially for …

Linear lag models and measurements of the lag correction factors

E Lee, DS Kim - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For fluoroscopic imaging, flat-panel dynamic detectors can acquire X-ray image sequences
with frame rates higher than 300 frames per second. However, the sequentially acquired …