A novel method to characterize the MTF in 3D for computed mammotomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Madhav, Priti ^a,b   McKinley, Randolph L ^a,b   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b,c   Bowsher, James E ^a   Tornai, Martin P ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Iterative reconstruction; Line spread function (LSF); Mammotomography; Modulation transfer function (MTF); Orbits; Resolution; Tomography; Transmission imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LINE SPREAD FUNCTION (LSF); MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; RESOLUTION; TRANSMISSION IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 33745351034     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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