A polychromatic method to enhance the soft tissue contrast of computerized tomographic images using a saddle point approximation

2007 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 828-831

  Walimuni, Indika S ^a   Kouri, Donald J ^a   Papadakis, Manos ^a   Bodmann, Bernhard G ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCHROMATIC METHOD; SIMULATED DATA;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECOGNITION; TISSUE;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 36348953705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2007.356980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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