Evaluation of and compensation for spatial noise of LCDs in medical applications

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 578-587

  Fan, Jiahua ^a   Roehrig, Hans ^b   Sundareshan, Malur K ^a   Krupinski, Elizabeth ^c   Dallas, William J ^b   Gandhi, Kunal ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD camera; Error diffusion; LCD; Registration; Spatial noise

Indexed keywords

CATHODE RAY TUBES; CATHODES; CCD CAMERAS; DIAGNOSIS; ERROR COMPENSATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL;

ERROR DIFFUSION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY(LCD); NOISE COMPENSATION; REGISTRATION; SIGNAL MODELING; SOFTCOPY DISPLAY; SPATIAL NOISE;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAMERA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 14644412350     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1855031     Document Type: Article

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