Design of a dual CCD configuration to improve the signal-to-noise ratio

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2435-2437

  Liu, H ^a   Wang, G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Digital CCD detector arrays; Medical imaging; Signal to noise ratio (SNR)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAY DETECTORS;

CCD DETECTORS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE DETECTORS; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; MICRO CT; X-RAY FLUOROSCOPY;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY;

EID: 0033743902     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1312191     Document Type: Article

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