Distributions of scatter-to-primary and signal-to-noise ratios per pixel in digital chest imaging

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 355-358

  Ullman, Gustaf ^a   Sandbord, Michael ^a   Dance, David R ^b   Hunt, Roger ^b   Carlsson, Gudrun Alm ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 21244443834     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch530     Document Type: Article

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