Abstract
The contrast resolution of modern digital radiographic equipment is primarily limited by quantum mottle. The derivation of the contrast resolution of a system as a function of radiation exposure is presented. Calculations based on this derivation show that achieving 0.8% contrast resolution (128 meaningful gray levels) with 1-mm spatial resolution may require a patient exposure of 1.7 rad (1.7 cGy) per image of a thick body part (20 cm tissue). Acceptable clinical studies often can be obtained with only 5% contrast resolution (20 meaningful shades of gray), but even this level of contrast may require a patient exposure of nearly 90 mrad (0.9 mGy) per image. A comparison of three commonly used methods of reducing patient radiation exposure (pulsed imaging, temporal averaging, and recursive filtering) shows that, in theory, a pulsed system achieves the highest contrast resolution for the same total exposure.
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