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Change of MTF for Sampling Interval in Digital Detector

디지털 검출기에서 샘플링 간격에 따른 MTF의 변화

  • Cho, Hyungwook (Department of Radiological Science, The Graduate School, Catholic University of Daegu) ;
  • Chon, Kwonsu (Department of Radiological Science, The Graduate School, Catholic University of Daegu)
  • 조형욱 (대구가톨릭대학교 방사선학과) ;
  • 천권수 (대구가톨릭대학교 방사선학과)
  • Received : 2014.03.31
  • Accepted : 2014.08.25
  • Published : 2014.08.30

Abstract

Assessments of medical image was improved in accordance with development of medical imaging systems. One of them is edge method to determining MTF(Modulation Transfer Function) based on the Fujita method. Fujita was reduced sampling interval used slightly angulated slit to the direction of pixel array and composited finely sampled LSF to determine presampling MTF. In this study, we investigate the effect of sampling interval on the MTF under a digital imaging system by changing wire angle. The wire method was equivalent to the slit method except signal appearance. A Simens's MAMMOMAT Inspiration with $0.085{\times}0.085mm^2$ pixel size made by amorphous selenium was used and 96% accuracy on MTF in twice sampling interval compared with Fujita was obtained. However, three times of sampling interval showed 93% accuracy on 50% of MTF and 85% accuracy on 10% of MTF.

엑스선 의료영상이 디지털 시스템으로 발전함에 따라 의료영상의 평가 방법 또한 디지털 시스템에 맞춰 새롭게 개선되었으며 그 중 MTF(Modulation Transfer Function) 측정법은 Fujita이론에 기초한 에지법으로 ISO에 규정되었다. 에지법의 기초인 Fujita이론은 MTF 측정을 위해 슬릿의 각도를 디지털 검출기의 픽셀 열에 대하여 $1^{\circ}{\sim}2^{\circ}$ 기울여 영상을 획득한 후 LSF를 합성하는 것으로 샘플링 간격은 각도에 따라 크게는 1/54배, 작게는 1/28배 감소하게 된다. 본 연구에서 사용된 장비는 Simens사의 MAMMOMAT Inspiration으로 비정질 셀레늄(amorphous selenium) 기반의 $0.085{\times}0.085mm^2$ 의 픽셀 사이즈를 갖는 검출기를 이용하여 presampling MTF를 측정하였다. 측정 방법은 Fujita의 슬릿법와 동일한 방법인 와이어법를 이용하였으며 측정된 영상에서 얻은 픽셀값을 이용하여 엑셀에서 이산 푸리에 변환을 시행하였다. 실험 결과 Fujita이론 대비 약 3배 이상의 샘플링 간격(sampling interval)의 경우 해상도 평가 지수인 10% MTF에서 약 85% 이하의 정확도를 보였으며 선예도 평가 지수인 50% MTF에서 약 93% 이하의 정확도를 나타내었다. 하지만 샘플링 간격이 Fujita 이론 대비 2배 정도 늘어난 경우는 50%와 10% MTF 모두 96% 이상의 정확도를 가진다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

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