Apr 01
Optimal SNR versus tube voltage
In this post, I continue the discussion of my paper, “Near optimal energy selective x-ray imaging system performance with simple detectors.” I summarized many of the theoretical formulas in my last post. Here, I will discuss the formulas for the SNR with x-ray tube spectra with different voltages and different object thicknesses. I will present code to reproduce Figs. 7-9 of the paper. The results show that the energy-selective detectors have SNR that is approximately 4 times larger than the SNR with energy-integrating detectors, the detectors used in almost all conventional medical x-ray systems.
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