Image quality improvement and exposure dose reduction with the combined use of X-ray modulation and Boost3D

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kazama, Masahiro ^a   Tsukagoshi, Shinsuke ^a   Okumura, Miwa ^a  

^a TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; Dose reduction and Image quality

Indexed keywords

BOOST3D; CT; DOSE REDUCTION; X-RAY MODULATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; X RAYS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 33745338448     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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