On the influence of noise correlations in measurement data on basis image noise in dual-energylike x-ray imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 959-966

  Roessl, Ewald ^a   Ziegler, Andy ^a   Proksa, Roland ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Counting integrating readout; Dual energy imaging; Measurement noise correlations

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTONS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; COUNTING-INTEGRATING READOUT; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; MEASUREMENT NOISE; MEASUREMENT PROCESS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; MATERIALS; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; X RAY;

EID: 33847632428     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2514058     Document Type: Article

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