Nonlinear Filters Applied on Computerized Axial Tomography: Theory and Phantom Images

Medical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 1057-1064

  Akselrod, Solanqe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b IAI Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

image processing; median filter; resolution preservation; smoothing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL FILTERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE REDUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0026673952     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596824     Document Type: Article

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