Investigation of an image artefact induced by projection noise inhomogeneity in multi-slice helical computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-356

  Hsieh, Jiang ^a  

^a GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOLOGY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0037423588     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/3/305     Document Type: Article

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