Spatially varying longitudinal aliasing and resolution in spiral computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2617-2625

  Yen, Shin Yi ^a   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^b   Napel, Sandy ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal aliasing; Longitudinal resolution; Sampling; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; PHANTOMS; SAMPLING;

ALIASING; IMAGE DEGRADATION; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; INTERPOLATION ALGORITHMS; LONGITUDINAL RESOLUTION; SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SPIRAL CT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0343920761     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598801     Document Type: Article

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