Spatial variation of resolution and noise in multi-detector row spiral CT

Academic Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 607-613

  Meinel Jr , John F ^a   Wang, Ge ^a   Jiang, Ming ^b   Frei, Troy ^a   Vannier, Michael ^a   Hoffman, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Computed tomography (CT); Image quality; Multi detector row; Quantitative

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0038350968     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80078-8     Document Type: Article

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