title: The relationship between resolution and speed of x-ray intensifying screens.
abstract: Two important physical characteristics of x-ray intensifying screens, speed and resolution, are inversely related. However, the exact mathematical relationship, if any, between them is not known. To investigate this matter, a simple model is considered, which predicts that the product of the equivalent passband Ne and the square root of the speed is constant for a given phosphor material and given film. This relationship is found to be in excellent agreement with experimental data. The papper concludes with a discussion of the generalized validity of this relationship.
mesh_terms: D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010758:Phosphorus; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D010758:Phosphorus