Application of the noise power spectrum in modern diagnostic MDCT: Part II. Noise power spectra and signal to noise

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4047-4061

  Boedeker, K L ^a,b   McNitt Gray, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MATCHED FILTERS; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM (NPS); RECONSTRUCTION FILTERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 34547254544     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/14/003     Document Type: Article

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