Noise simulation in x-ray CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 898-909

  Massoumzadeh, Parinaz ^a   Earl, Orville A ^a   Whiting, Bruce R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Dose reduction; Noise modeling

Indexed keywords

CT; DOSE REDUCTION; NOISE MODELING; SYNTHETIC NOISE;

DATA REDUCTION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844530930     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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