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Troubleshooting image quality
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Various components, when operating incorrectly, can yield a variety of unacceptable
imaging artifacts. These artifacts can come from anywhere along the chain of image cap-
ture, conversion, and display. The tables in this topic suggest the causes and corrective
responses for particular problems.
A key step in analysis is to isolate the artifact to the component that is producing it. First,
similar appearing artifacts can come from anywhere in the overall image chain. Second,
the tendency to assume that the artifact is coming from the least known component must
be avoided. For example, artifacts that appear to be coming from the detector may actu-
ally be coming from the output device or processing.
Isolation is the first step and should be done by using internallygenerated image patterns
in the image chain to determine where exactly the artifact is being produced (“what
is/what is not” the artifact analysis).
The following tables provide direction for cause and corrective action for those artifacts
that have been validated as coming from various components