Optimization of slice sensitivity profile for radiographic tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2907-2916

  Li, Baojun ^a   Avinash, Gopal B ^a   Eberhard, Jeffrey W ^b   Claus, Bernhard E H ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition angle; Angular range; Slice sensitivity profile; Slice thickness; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS;

ACQUISITION ANGLE; ANGULAR RANGE; SLICE THICKNESS; SLICE-SENSITIVITY PROFILES; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTATION; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34347393496     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2742499     Document Type: Article

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