Evaluation of the contrast-detail response of a cardiovascular angiography system and the influence of the equipment variables on image quality

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6913, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Dragusin, Octavian ^a   Smans, Kristien ^a   Jacobs, Jurgen ^a   Inal, Tolga ^b   Bosnians, Hilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Contrast detail detectability; Flat panel detector; Image quality; Interventional cardiology

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; IMAGE QUALITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CONTRAST DETAIL DETECTABILITY; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; FLUOROGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 43149104791     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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