Resolution and noise trade-off analysis for volumetric CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3732-3738

  Li, Baojun ^a   Avinash, Gopal B ^a   Hsieh, Jiang ^a  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D MTF; Noise; Spatial Resolution; Volumetric CT

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; QUANTUM NOISE;

3D MTF; DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; NOISE; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRIC CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; KERNEL METHOD; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 34748898317     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2779128     Document Type: Article

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