New low-contrast resolution phantoms for computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 296-302

  Suess, Christoph ^b   Kalender, Willi A ^a   Coman, Johannes M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast; Image quality; Low contrast resolution; Phantoms

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING;

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; CONTRAST; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; LOW CONTRAST RESOLUTION; RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; SPHERICAL OBJECTS; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032914531     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598516     Document Type: Article

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