Improving the imaging of calcifications in CT by histogram-based selective deblurring

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 67-78

  Rollano Hijarrubia, Empar ^a   Van Der Meer, Frits ^a   Van Der Lugt, Add ^a   Weinans, Harrie ^a   Vrooman, Henry ^a   Vossepoel, Albert ^a   Stokking, Rik ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT; Calcification; Computed tomography; Deblurring; Deconvolution; PSF; Quantification; Resolution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ΜCT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBLURRING; DECONVOLUTION; PSF; QUANTIFICATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844500695     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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