Wizard Deflection spell question

[Khelvan]

Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M (a piece of rubber dipped in glue)
Range personal
Target you
Duration 1 round/level
You surround yourself in a whirling barrier of force that sends any attack that misses you hurling back toward its source. This applies to any melee or ranged attack directed against you so long as it uses an attack roll to determine whether or not it strikes you. If an attack misses you, the attacker must make a second attack roll against its own Armor Class, using all of the applicable modifiers of the original attack and if it hits, the attacker takes the attack's damage and suffers all the other consequences of getting struck with that attack. You cannot deflect attacks that miss you for any reason besides a failed attack roll (such as concealment). Similarly, you cannot deflect attacks that actually do strike you but simply fail to do any harm.

My question is how is a miss defined that this spells is triggered?
Assuming the Wizard using that spell has Mirror Images would a hit on an Image count as miss and therefore trigger the deflection?

Any advise?

Regards

Khel.

[DM_Blake]

Attacks don't hit an image if they miss. In order for your enemy to hit one of your mirror images, they need to make a successful attack.

As such, I believe this spell only triggers when the attacker rolls a miss. Any "hit" that is prevented by another spell or armor or divine intervention or whatever is still a hit and doesn't trigger this spell.

[Cevah]

Reference: Deflection, Mirror Image

If a mirror image is destroyed from an attack roll that hit, deflection does nothing.
If a mirror image is destroyed from an attack roll that missed by 5 or less, then deflection triggers.
If a attack roll missed by greater than 5, then deflection triggers.

/cevah