Signal statistics of x-ray computed tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 53-60

  Whiting, Bruce R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson statistics; Computed tomography; Probability distribution functions

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; X RAYS;

X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036032091     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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