An investigation of the imaging characteristics of the Y2O2S:Eu3+ phosphor for application in X-ray detectors of digital mammography

Appl Radiat Isot. 1998 Aug;49(8):931-7. doi: 10.1016/s0969-8043(97)10108-7.

Abstract

Y2O2S:Eu laboratory prepared screens were evaluated as mammographic image receptors and were compared to similarly prepared screens of Gd2O2S:Tb and Y2O2S:Tb phosphor materials, often used in X-ray imaging detectors. The evaluation was performed by determining the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) and the spatial frequency dependent Detective Quantum Efficiency (DQE). Y2O2S:Eu exhibited higher DQE values at low frequencies and given its good spectral matching with digital optical detectors, it may be appropriate for use in X-ray digital mammography.

MeSH terms

  • Europium*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Luminescent Measurements
  • Mammography / instrumentation*
  • Mammography / methods*
  • Mathematical Computing
  • Oxides
  • Sulfides
  • X-Rays
  • Yttrium*

Substances

  • Oxides
  • Sulfides
  • Europium
  • Yttrium