Optical compensation device for chest film radiography

Robert G. Gould; Bruce H. Hasegawa; Sherman E. DeForest; Gregory W. Schmidt; Richard G. Hier

doi:10.1117/12.18917

1 July 1990 Optical compensation device for chest film radiography

Robert G. Gould, Bruce H. Hasegawa, Sherman E. DeForest, Gregory W. Schmidt, Richard G. Hier

Proceedings Volume 1233, Medical Imaging IV: Image Processing; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18917
Event: Medical Imaging '90, 1990, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Although chest radiography is the most commonly performed radiographic examination and one of the most valuable and cost-effective studies in medicine it suffers from relatively high error rates in both missing pathology and false positive interpretations. Detectability of lung nodules and other structures in underpenetrated regions of the chest film can be improved by both exposure and optical compensation but current compensation systems require major capital cost or a significant change in normal clinical practice. A new optical compensation system called the " Intelligent X-Ray Illuminator" (IXI) automatically and virtually instantaneously generates a patient-specific optical unsharp mask that is projected directly on a radiograph. When a radiograph is placed on the IXI which looks much like a conventional viewbox it acquires a low-resolution electronic image of this film from which the film transmission is derived. The transmission information is inverted and blurred in an image processor to form an unsharp mask which is fed into a spatial light modulator (SLM) placed between a light source and the radiograph. The SLM tailors the viewbox luminance by decreasing illumination to underexposed (i. e. transmissive) areas of the radiograph presenting the observer with an optically unsharp-masked image. The IXI uses the original radiograph and will allow it to be viewed on demand with conventional (uniform illumination. Potentially the IXI could introduce the known beneficial aspects of optical unsharp masking into radiology at low capital

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Robert G. Gould, Bruce H. Hasegawa, Sherman E. DeForest, Gregory W. Schmidt, and Richard G. Hier "Optical compensation device for chest film radiography", Proc. SPIE 1233, Medical Imaging IV: Image Processing, (1 July 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18917

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Radiography

Radio optics

Chest imaging

Spatial light modulators

Intelligence systems

X-ray optics

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