The presampling MTFs of a digital radiographic system employing two types of photostimulable phosphor plates (imaging plates, HR and ST), which include the detector unsharpness and the unsharpness of the sampling aperture. were measured even beyond the Nyquist frequency (5 cycles/mm). An image of a slightly anguiated slit was employed in order to obtain Fourier transforms of line spread functions at different alignments. The presampling MTF was calculated by averaging the two Fourier transforms which we obtained from two extreme alignments (center and shifted) of the slit relative to the sampling coordinate. From the analysis of the presampling MTFs obtained and the detector MTFs previously determined, it was found that the effective sampling aperture size was considerably larger than the aperture size on the plate surface (laser beam spot size) due mainly to the scatterings of the incident laser beam and emitted laser-stimulated luminescence in the phosphors. The "digital characteristic curve" relating the pixel value to the relative x-ray intensity incident on the detector was also obtained for the liniarization, and was found to have a remarkably wider dynamic range (order of approximately 10
3) than that of conventional screen/film system.
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