Lubberts effect

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The Lubberts effect is the non-uniform response of an imaging system to X-rays that are absorbed at different depths within the input phosphor. It indicates an input phosphor depth-dependent response of the imaging system. It is named[1] for G. Lubberts, who published a report of it in 1968 while working at Kodak.[2] The Lubberts effect is related to the Swank effect, which relates the signal-to-noise ratio of a scintillator-based imaging system to the amount of random variation in the strength of the emitted photons.[3]

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  1. ^ Howansky, Adrian; Lubinsky, A.R.; Suzuki, Katsuhiko; Ghose, S.; Zhao, Wei (October 2018). "An apparatus and method for directly measuring the depth‐dependent gain and spatial resolution of turbid scintillators". Medical Physics. 45 (11): 4927–4941. Bibcode:2018MedPh..45.4927H. doi:10.1002/mp.13177. PMC 6234053. PMID 30193407.
  2. ^ Lubberts, G. (1968). "Random Noise Produced by X-Ray Fluorescent Screens". J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58 (11): 1475–1482. Bibcode:1968JOSA...58.1475L. doi:10.1364/JOSA.58.001475.
  3. ^ Swank, Robert K. (1 September 1973). "Absorption and noise in x‐ray phosphors". Journal of Applied Physics. 44 (9): 4199–4203. Bibcode:1973JAP....44.4199S. doi:10.1063/1.1662918. Retrieved 28 April 2022.