Comparison of three generations of electron beam tomography on image noise and reproducibility, a phantom study

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 522-526

  Chau, Alex ^a   Gopal, Ambarish ^a   Mao, Songshou ^a   Tseng, Philip H ^a   Fischer, Hans ^a   Budoff, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Collimation; Computed tomography; CT Electron beam computed tomography; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 33744985123     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000209664.29849.b7     Document Type: Article

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