Modeling noise properties of a high resolution CMOS detector for X-ray digital mammography

Author

Kalyvas, N. ; Michail, C. ; Fountos, G. ; Valais, I. ; Liaparinos, P. ; Seferis, I. ; Spyropoulou, V. ; Mytafidis, A. ; Panayiotakis, G. ; Kandarakis, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Med. Instrum. Technol., Technol. Educ. Inst. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

2465

Lastpage

2470

Abstract

A theoretical model based on Linear Cascaded Systems (LCS) theory was developed in order to study the noise properties of a commercially available high resolution CMOS sensor (RadEye CMOS). The parameters studied were the Normalized Noise Power Spectrum (NNPS) and the Noise Transfer Function (NTF). The modeling was applied to digital mammography conditions. It considered the physical properties of the scintillator incorporated into RadEye CMOS as well as the probability of X-ray absorption directly in the photoreceptor. Furthermore it took into account the pixel pitch and the thickness of the photoreceptor. The model was compared with experimental results obtained from literature. The NTF curves were I good agreement with the experimentally determined. NNPS curves deviations were attributed to the effect of the digitization procedure as well as the non-linear behavior of CMOS detector.

Keywords

CMOS image sensors; X-ray absorption; X-ray detection; diagnostic radiography; mammography; CMOS detector; Linear Cascaded Systems theory; NNPS; NTF; RadEye CMOS; X-ray absorption; X-ray digital mammography; noise transfer function; normalized noise power spectrum; photoreceptor; CMOS integrated circuits; Data models; Detectors; Semiconductor device modeling; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6152669

Filename

6152669