Imaging of small spherical structures in CT: Simulation study using measured point spread function

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 273-282

  Ohkubo, Masaki ^a   Wada, Shinichi ^a   Kunii, Masayuki ^a   Matsumoto, Toru ^b   Nishizawa, Kanae ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Line spread function (LSF); Point spread function (PSF); Section sensitivity profile (SSP); Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

IMAGE BLURRING; LINE SPREAD FUNCTION (LSF); SECTION SENSITIVITY PROFILE (SSP); SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG NODULE; MODELS AND PHANTOMS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39649111564     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0283-x     Document Type: Article

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