Digitally reconstructed radiograph generation by an adaptive Monte Carlo method

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2745-2752

  Li, Xiaoliang ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Zhu, Yuemin ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DATA PRIVACY; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL DATASETS; MONTE CARLO VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHMS;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIGITAL IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEMORY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33744827397     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/11/004     Document Type: Article

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