What is worse: Decreased spatial resolution or increased noise?

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4686, Issue , 2002, Pages 338-346

  Tingberg, Anders ^a   Herrmann, Clemens ^b   Besjakov, Jack ^a   Almén, Anja ^a   Sund, Patrik ^c   Adliene, Diana ^d   Mattsson, Sören ^a   Månsson, Lars Gunnar ^c   Panzer, Werner ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Contrast manipulation; Diagnostic radiology; European Image Criteria; Evaluation methods for clinical image quality; Lumbar spine radiography; Modulation transfer functions (MTF); Visual grading analysis (VGA); Wiener spectrum

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

VISUAL GRADING ANALYSIS (VGA);

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036029374     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462695     Document Type: Article

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