Spiral interpolation algorithms for multislice spiral CT—Part II: measurement and evaluation of slice sensitivity profiles and noise at a clinical multislice system

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 835-847

  Fuchs, Theobald ^a,b   Krause, Jens ^a,b   Schaller, Stefan ^c   Flohr, Thomas ^c   Kalender, Willi A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

ADAPTIVE AXIAL INTERPOLATOR; MULTIROW DETECTION SYSTEM; MULTISLICE SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SLICE SENSITIVITY PROFILE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034257866     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.887833     Document Type: Article

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