Image simulation and a model of noise power spectra across a range of mammographic beam qualities Alistair Mackenzie, David R. Dance, Oliver Diaz, and Kenneth C. Young Citation: Medical Physics 41, 121901 (2014); doi: 10.1118/1.4900819 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4900819 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapm/journal/medphys/41/12?ver=pdfcov Published by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Articles you may be interested in Dependency of image quality on system configuration parameters in a stationary digital breast tomosynthesis system Med. Phys. 40, 031917 (2013); 10.1118/1.4792296 Conversion of mammographic images to appear with the noise and sharpness characteristics of a different detector and x-ray system Med. Phys. 39, 2721 (2012); 10.1118/1.4704525 Computerized scheme for evaluating mammographic phantom images Med. Phys. 39, 1609 (2012); 10.1118/1.3687159 Cascaded systems analysis of noise reduction algorithms in dual-energy imaging Med. Phys. 35, 586 (2008); 10.1118/1.2826556 Does image quality matter? Impact of resolution and noise on mammographic task performance Med. Phys. 34, 3971 (2007); 10.1118/1.2776253