Digital tomosynthesis of hand joints for arthritis assessment

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 325-333

  Duryea, J ^a,c   Dobbins III, J T ^b   Lynch, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Computer; Erosions; Hand radiography; Joint space; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTERS; DISEASES; EROSION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTHRITIS; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; JOINT SPACE; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMALIZED MUTUAL INFORMATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DEVIATIONS; TOMOSYNTHESIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; ERROR; HAND; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 0037339814     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1543573     Document Type: Article

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