Soft tissue contrast resolution within the head of human cadaver by means of flat detector based cone-beam CT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 330-337

  Wiegert, J ^a,b   Bertram, M ^b   Schafer D ^b   Conrads, N ^b   Noordhoek, N ^c   De Jong, K ^d   Aach, T ^a   Rose, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cone beam computed tomography; Contrast; Flat X ray detector; Head imaging; Noise

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLYNOMIALS; RADIATION DETECTORS; ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE; X RAYS;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST; FLAT X-RAY DETECTORS; HEAD IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 3042599911     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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