Correction for geometric image distortion in the x-ray imaging chain: Local technique versus global technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2602-2616

  Gronenschild, Ed ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital radiography; Geometric distortion; II distortion; II TV system; Image intensifiers; Quantitative imaging

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (SOLID STATE);

BILINEAR INTERPOLATION; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; GEOMETRIC IMAGE DISTORTION; PARAMETER CORRECTION; POLYNOMIAL MAPPINGS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; TV SYSTEMS;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGING; MODEL; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; X RAY;

EID: 0033430134     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598800     Document Type: Article

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