Scatter compensation in digital chest radiography using the posterior beam stop techniquea)

Medical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 435-443

  Ravin, Carl E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

digital chest radiography; image; portable bedside radiography; processing; scatter radiation

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; LOCATION; PHANTOMS; RADIOGRAPHY;

BICUBIC SPLINE INTERPOLATIONS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; INTERPOLATION ERROR; SCATTER RADIATION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; ERROR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028281468     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597388     Document Type: Article

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