Optimization of low-contrast detectability in thin-collimated modern multidetector CT using an interactive sliding-thin-slab averaging algorithm

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 229-235

  Von Falck, Christian ^a   Hartung, Alexander ^a   Berndzen, Frank ^a   King, Benjamin ^a   Galanski, Michael ^a   Shin, Hoen Oh ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast; Imaging phantom; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 40949127029     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181614f2d     Document Type: Article

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