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

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-315

  Badea, Cristian ^a   Kolitsi, Zoi ^a   Pallikarakis, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiography; Digital tomosynthesis; Edge detection; Limited angle tomography; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; LIMITED-ANGLE TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SHEEP; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 0032124969     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(98)00037-8     Document Type: Article

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