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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 29.
Published in final edited form as: Nucl Instrum Methods Phys Res A. 2011 Aug 21;648(Suppl 1):S241–S250. doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.11.088

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Calculations of (a) NEQ and (b) detectability index. Cascaded systems analysis of imaging performance serves to identify the factors in the image acquisition and reconstruction chain that limit performance and can be used to identify low-dose imaging protocols consistent with a given task.