Comparison of high resolution x-ray detectors with conventional FPDs using experimental MTFs and apodized aperture pixel design for reduced aliasing

A. Shankar; M. Russ; S. Vijayan; D. R. Bednarek; S. Rudin

doi:10.1117/12.2254402

9 March 2017 Comparison of high resolution x-ray detectors with conventional FPDs using experimental MTFs and apodized aperture pixel design for reduced aliasing

A. Shankar, M. Russ, S. Vijayan, D. R. Bednarek, S. Rudin

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Proceedings Volume 10132, Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging; 101323Z (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254402
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Apodized Aperture Pixel (AAP) design, proposed by Ismailova et.al, is an alternative to the conventional pixel design. The advantages of AAP processing with a sinc filter in comparison with using other filters include non-degradation of MTF values and elimination of signal and noise aliasing, resulting in an increased performance at higher frequencies, approaching the Nyquist frequency. If high resolution small field-of-view (FOV) detectors with small pixels used during critical stages of Endovascular Image Guided Interventions (EIGIs) could also be extended to cover a full field-of-view typical of flat panel detectors (FPDs) and made to have larger effective pixels, then methods must be used to preserve the MTF over the frequency range up to the Nyquist frequency of the FPD while minimizing aliasing. In this work, we convolve the experimentally measured MTFs of an Microangiographic Fluoroscope (MAF) detector, (the MAF-CCD with 35μm pixels) and a High Resolution Fluoroscope (HRF) detector (HRF-CMOS50 with 49.5μm pixels) with the AAP filter and show the superiority of the results compared to MTFs resulting from moving average pixel binning and to the MTF of a standard FPD. The effect of using AAP is also shown in the spatial domain, when used to image an infinitely small point object. For detectors in neurovascular interventions, where high resolution is the priority during critical parts of the intervention, but full FOV with larger pixels are needed during less critical parts, AAP design provides an alternative to simple pixel binning while effectively eliminating signal and noise aliasing yet allowing the small FOV high resolution imaging to be maintained during critical parts of the EIGI.

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A. Shankar, M. Russ, S. Vijayan, D. R. Bednarek, and S. Rudin "Comparison of high resolution x-ray detectors with conventional FPDs using experimental MTFs and apodized aperture pixel design for reduced aliasing", Proc. SPIE 10132, Medical Imaging 2017: Physics of Medical Imaging, 101323Z (9 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254402

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Modulation transfer functions

Sensors

Image resolution

Point spread functions

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