Quantitative assessment of computed radiography quality control parameters

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1577-1593

  Rampado, O ^a   Isoardi, P ^a   Ropolo, R ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER BEAMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL PARAMETERS; SPATIAL ACCURACY;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES;

CALIBRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644676949     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/015     Document Type: Article

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