Reduction of anatomical noise in medical X-ray images

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 69-74

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

^a Inst of Radiation Protection   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE REDUCTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHYSICS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY; X-RAYS;

EID: 21244485877     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch518     Document Type: Article

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