Effect of acquisition parameters on image quality in digital tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Deller, Timothy ^a   Jabri, Kadri N ^a   Sabol, John M ^a   Ni, Xianfeng ^a   Avinash, Gopal ^a   Saunders, Rowland ^a   Uppaluri, Renuka ^a  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition parameters; Digital radiography; Image noise; Image quality; Resolution; Ripple; Tomosynthesis; Volumetric imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE NOISE; TOMOSYNTHESIS; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35148861836     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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