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DICOM Calibration and GSDF

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You might have heard about DICOM calibration a million times. But what is it doing, really?

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://www.barco.com/en/News/Press-releases/barco-launches-qa-and-calibration-tool-for-mobile-viewing-of-medical-images-on-the-ipad.aspx

  2. 2.

    Part 3 of DICOM standard.

  3. 3.

    See current list of all DICOM parts at http://medical.nema.org/standard.html.

  4. 4.

    As usual, log10 is the logarithm base 10, and ln = loge – the natural logarithm

  5. 5.

    For small j, L E (j) can have negative values, so take the absolute value.

  6. 6.

    See Weber-Fechner law on Wikipedia.

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Pianykh, O.S. (2014). DICOM Calibration and GSDF. In: Digital Image Quality in Medicine. Understanding Medical Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01760-0_8

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