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The Apple Cinema Display does not allow direct storage of a custom LUT in its hard-
ware, so calibration of these displays requires an ICC prole.
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We applied this prole
at the graphics adapter level via the appropriate System Preferences pane.
The basICColor RAY application (see Figure 7), a commercial application available from
Color Solutions, allowed us to calibrate according to a DICOM or CIE LUT using auto-
matic measurement procedures with dierent colorimeters and luminance meters. We
calibrated our 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays to a DICOM LUT
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using a white point of
6500K. We chose the lowest possible black point to achieve the greatest contrast. The
maximum luminance was set to be 50 cd/m
2
higher than the minimum specied by
the DIN 6868-57 directive. This ensured that the luminance at measurement distance
would not fall below Category A and B limits between service intervals. (On 8-bit
Apple Cinema Displays, it is advisable to reduce maximum luminance to leave enough
bandwidth to represent darker gray levels.)
After calibrating grayscale using 250 cd/m
2
as maximum luminance, the team
achieved measured grayscale presentation results that met the GSDF requirement.
(See Figure 8.)
Gray level representation (ACD 30˝ calibrated to 250 cd/m
2
)
Gray level (%)
300,00
250,00
Luminance (cd/m
2
)
200,00
150,00
100,00
50,00
0,00
100 20 30 40 50
70 80 90 10060
Measured
Required (GSDF)
Figure 8: After calibration, the 30-inch Apple Cinema Display matches the required curve of gray
level representation.
Eect of antireective coating. Like other at panel displays, the Apple Cinema
Display features an antireective coating. Designed to diuse ambient light, the
coating can coarsen granulation, which can produce a “mother of pearl” eect
when viewing bright areas in chest X-ray images. However, the coating did not
aect extremity X-ray, CT, or MRI images.
Post-calibration tests. After calibration, we performed conformity tests on the displays.
Table 2 shows the results of the two 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays, which were
measured with the CD-LUX densitometer in a specic distance and an ambient light
of approximately 6 lux.
Table 2: Results of conformity tests on the two calibrated 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays
(The accepted standards for each test are listed in italics.)
Maximum Luminance
[cd/m
2
]
Maximum Contrast Inhomogeneity
Apple Cinema Display 1 Result: 231.8
Category A target: > 200
Category B target: > 120
Result: 331.14
Category A target: > 100
Category B target: > 40
Result: 14.6%
Category A target: ± 15%
Category B target: ± 20%
Figure 7: The basICColor RAY application uses
automatic measurement procedures to calibrate
with dierent colorimeters and luminance meters.
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