This is a powerful method to determine many parameters describing your imaging system. This talk teaches the basics as to what a PTC will do, how to make one and the things you can learn from it including:
Read Noise
Full Well Capacity
Camera Gain
Photo Response Non-Uniformity
Dark Signal Non-Uniformity
Effectiveness of the Flat-Fielding operation
Signal to noise optimization
Minimum detection limit
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To see the mathematics behind the process of flat-fielding, click here