Image covariance and lesion detectability in direct fan-beam x-ray computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2471-2493

  Wunderlich, Adam ^a   Noo, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVERS; DIRECT FAN BEAM FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; IMAGE COVARIANCE; LESION DETECTABILITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COVARIANCE; DIRECT FAN BEAM X RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42649084336     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/10/002     Document Type: Article

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