The influence of CT dose and reconstruction parameters on automated detection of small pulmonary nodules

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ochs, Robert ^a   Angel, Erin ^a   Boedeker, Kirsten ^a   Petkovska, Iva ^a   Panknin, Christoph ^b   Goldin, Jonathan ^a   Aberle, Denise ^a   McNitt Gray, Michael ^a   Brown, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography (CT); Computer Aided Detection (CAD); Dose; Imaging Physics; LIDC; Reconstruction Kernel; Small Lung Nodules

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION (CAD); DOSE; IMAGING PHYSICS; LIDC; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; SMALL LUNG NODULES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 33745130050     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.658663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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