Submitted by Craig Moore, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Commenting on behalf of the organisation
Section 2.2.2 - AECs:
I do not agree that 'constant EI is recommended as the method of choice for setting up AECs for digital radiography.' We have published 2 papers on this subject in recent years both concluding that contant SNR as the optimum metric:
C.S.Moore, T.J. Wood, G Avery, S Balcam, L Needler, A.W. Beavis, J.R. Saunderson , “An investigation of automatic exposure control calibration for chest imaging with a computed radiography system”. Phys. Med. Biol. 59 (2014) 2307-2324. DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/9/2307
C.S Moore, T.J. Wood, G Avery, S Balcam, L Needler, H Joshi, J.R. Saunderson and A.W. Beavis, Automatic exposure control calibration and optimisation for abdomen, pelvis and spine imaging with a computed radiography system Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2016Oct 7;61(21):N551 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/21/N551
Furthermore, we have calibrated all of our DR and CR systems using the practical method we published:
Craig S Moore, Tim J Wood, Steven Jones, John R Saunderson and Andrew W Beavis, A practical method to calibrate and optimise automatic exposure control devices for computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) imaging systems using the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) metric, Biomed. Phys. Eng. Express 5 (2019) 035027 DOI 10.1088/2057-1976/ab123b
Surely you should at least cite these independent references?