Noise and material residues in dual-energy basis decomposition radiography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 314, Issue , 1981, Pages 143-149

  Lehmann, Leonard A ^a   Macovski, Albert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL ENERGY RADIOGRAPHY; SNR MEASUREMENTS;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0019689836     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.933036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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