Information Storage Requirements In Radiology

J. W. Motz; M. Danos

doi:10.1117/12.958191

26 December 1979 Information Storage Requirements In Radiology

J. W. Motz, M. Danos

Proceedings Volume 0206, Recent and Future Developments in Medical Imaging II; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958191
Event: 23rd Annual Technical Symposium, 1979, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The number of bits required for storing the information contained in an x-ray image depends primarily on the x-ray exposure at the image plane and on the desired spatial resolution. This dependence has been determined from calculations of the maximum attainable signal-to-noise ratios for exposures and resolutions respectively in the regions from 10^-2 to 102 milliroentgens and 10^-4 to 1 cm2. The results show that for the different image sizes and exposures used in diagnostic radiology, the number of bits required for the storage of these images extends from approximately 10⁵ to 10⁸.

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J. W. Motz and M. Danos "Information Storage Requirements In Radiology", Proc. SPIE 0206, Recent and Future Developments in Medical Imaging II, (26 December 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958191

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