A method for selective removal of out-of-plane structures in digital tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 47-50

  Kolitsi, Z ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a   Pallikarakis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

digital tomosynthesis; image processing; limited angle tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0027395004     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597060     Document Type: Article

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