Demonstration of correlations between physical and clinical image quality measures in chest and lumbar spine radiography

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2000, Pages 3078-3081

  Sandborg, Michael ^a   Tingberg, Anders ^b   Sund, Patrik ^c   McVey, Graham ^d   Dance, David ^d   Carlsson, Gudrun Alm ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical image quality; Contrast; Dynamic range; Image criteria; Signal to noise

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE CRITERIA SCORE; LUMBAR SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034441510     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2000.901532     Document Type: Article

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