Complete MTF evaluation of two cone beam CT systems

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Benítez, Ricardo Betancourt ^a,b   Ning, Ruola ^a   Conover, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACQUISITION MODES; ATOMIC NUMBERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148889476     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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