Experimental correlation-based identification of X-ray CT point spread function. Part 1: Method and experimental results

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 2-8

  Dore S ^a   Kearney, R E ^b   De Guise, J A ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CT scanner; Cupping; Identification; Noise; Non parametric; Point spread function; Pseudo randomly located holes; Wiener Hopf

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CUPPING; IMPULSE METHOD; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; PSEUDO RANDOMLY LOCATED HOLES; WIENER-HOPF EQUATION;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0031053604     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02510384     Document Type: Article

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