Tradeoffs in noise, resolution, and dose with reconstruction filter in lung nodule detection in CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 695-703

  Boedeker, Kirsten L ^a   McNitt Gray, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Low contrast; Low dose; Lung nodule; Object detectability; Reconstruction filter; SNR

Indexed keywords

LOW CONTRAST; LOW DOSE; LUNG MODULE; OBJECT DETECTABILITY; RECONSTRUCTION FILTER; SNR;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CALCULATIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844513129     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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