Hardware assessment using the multi-module, multi-resolution system (M 3 R): A signal-detection study

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3034-3044

  Hesterman, Jacob Y ^a   Kupinski, Matthew A ^a   Clarkson, Eric ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channelized Hotelling observer; Hardware assessment; Image quality; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TEXTURES;

APERTURE COMBINATIONS; CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVERS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE PINHOLES; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; OBSERVER STUDIES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; RESOLUTION SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MULTI MODULE MULTI RESOLUTION SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 34347387105     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2745920     Document Type: Article

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