A software data generator for radiographic imaging investigations

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 76-79

  Lazos, D ^a   Kolitsi, Z ^a   Pallikarakis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Digital tomosynthesis; Medical imaging; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; PHANTOM DESIGN MODULE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING; RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING; SOFTWARE DATA GENERATOR;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 0033624786     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.826863     Document Type: Article

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