An effective method to verify line and point spread functions measured in computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2757-2764

  Ohkubo, Masaki ^a   Wada, Sinichi ^a   Matsumoto, Toru ^b   Nishizawa, Kanae ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Line spread function (LSF); Modulation transfer function (MTF); Point spread function (PSF); Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS;

CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; FINE STRUCTURES; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; NORMALIZED STANDARD DEVIATIONS; OBJECT FUNCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33746643744     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2214168     Document Type: Article

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