Scatter and veiling glare estimation based on sampled primary intensity

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2301-2310

  Zhou, Yifang ^a   Mathur, Tarun ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi cubic interpolation; Digital filtration; Primary radiation; Videodensitometry; X ray scatter and veiling glare

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GLARE; INTERPOLATION; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; X RAYS;

BICUBIC INTERPOLATION; DIGITAL FILTRATION; PRIMARY RADIATIONS; VEILING GLARE; VIDEODENSITOMETRY;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DIGITAL FILTERING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; GLARE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; THORAX; VIDEODENSITOMETRY;

EID: 0032742083     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598744     Document Type: Article

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