Kenneth A. Fetterly, PhD

X-ray angiography systems are used to diagnose and treat pediatric congenital heart disease. Among the substantial variability in this patient population is that patient weight ranges from <1 kg premature infants to large adolescents. Given that the X-ray sca...

Existing spatial domain implementations of Hotelling observers used to assess imaging system performance provide a single SNR figure of merit associated with a symmetric test object. The purpose of this work was to develop and validate a pixel-specific model...