Comparison of technical and anatomical noise in digital thorax X-ray images

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 75-80

  Hoeschen, Christoph ^a,b   Tischenko, Oleg ^a,b   Buhr, Egbert ^c   Illers, Hartmut ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS; X-RAYS;

EID: 21244480572     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch543     Document Type: Article

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