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C A Trosseille1, L R Benedetti1, M S Beach1
1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
Abstract:
We apply a cascaded linear model analysis to a micro-channel plate x-ray framing camera. We establish a theoretical expression of the Noise Power Spectrum (NPS) at the detector's output and assess its accuracy by comparing it to the NPS of Monte Carlo simulations of the detector's response to a uniform illumination. We also demonstrate that fitting the NPS of experimental data against a parametric model based on this expression can yield valuable information on the imaging ability of framing cameras, offering an alternative approach to the usual method employed to measure their modulation transfer functions.
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