Optimal pitch in spiral computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1635-1639

  Wang, Ge ^a   Vannier, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Image quality; Imaging protocols; Optimization; Spiral helical technique

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTINUOUS SCANNING; DATA INTERPOLATION; IMAGING PROTOCOL; OPTIMAL IMAGE QUALITY; SCANNING RANGE; SLICE THICKNESS; SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SPIRAL/HELICAL TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030819048     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597971     Document Type: Article

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