Properties of the prototype 256-row (cone beam) CT scanner

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2100-2108

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a,c   Endo, Masahiro ^a   Obata, Takayuki ^a   Tsunoo, Takanori ^a   Susumu, Kandatsu ^b   Tanada, Shuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Computed tomography (CT); Cone beam; Images; Physics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746896543     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0213-6     Document Type: Article

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