Assessment of parameters of digital X-ray detectors using the method of exposure of the working area of the detector to uniform X-ray radiation
It is shown that the main parameters determining the imaging quality of digital X-ray image detectors can be assessed by the method of exposure of the working area of the detector to uniform X-ray radiation. This method makes unnecessary the expert evaluation and measurements using high-precision test objects. It can be used in clinical practice for effective monitoring of the quality of digital X-ray detectors.
Modulation Transfer Function of Radiographic Systems Using Fluorescent Screens
When radiographic film is exposed with fluorescent intensifying screens, the spatial x-ray quantum fluctuations are recorded on the film in the form of density fluctuations (“quantum mottle”). The x-ray quantum fluctuations can be regarded as the input and the quantum mottle as the output of the image-forming system. The Wiener spectrum of the quantum mottle has been used to determine the relative modulation transfer function of two radiographic systems.
Persistence and Change in Minkowski Spacetime
There are famously two main metaphysics of persistence, namely three and four-dimensionalism. Both yield a particular solution to the so called puzzle of change. I argue that typical three-dimensionalist solutions to the puzzle face insurmountable difficulties even in the simplest relativistic setting, that of Minkowski spacetime