Analysis of streak artefacts on CT images using statistics of extremes

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 80, Issue 959, 2007, Pages 911-918

  Imai, Kuniharu ^a   Ikeda, M ^a   Wada, S ^b   Enchi, Y ^c   Niimi, T ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING; PHANTOM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; LIVER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SHOULDER; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 36749046235     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/93741044     Document Type: Article

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