Spatial harmonic imaging of X-ray scattering - Initial results

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 997-1002

  Wen, Han ^b   Bennett, Eric E ^a,b   Hegedus, Monica M ^b   Carroll, Stefanie C ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Imaging; Scatter; X ray

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

ABSORPTION IMAGING; AUTO CORRELATIONS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; COHERENT X-RAY SCATTERING; CONTRAST MECHANISMS; CURRENT TECHNIQUES; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FOURIER; IMAGED OBJECT; IMAGING; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; SCATTER; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; SCATTERING IMAGES; SINGLE EXPOSURE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DOMAINS; SPATIAL HARMONICS; SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES; X-RAY; X-RAY BEAMS; X-RAY EQUIPMENTS; X-RAY SOURCES;

SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAYS;

EID: 48549087517     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.912393     Document Type: Article

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