Differences in compression artifacts on thin- and thick-section lung CT images

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Bajpai, Vasundhara ^a,b   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^a,b   Kim, Bohyoung ^a,b   Kil, Joong Kim ^a,b   Tae, Jung Kim ^a,b   Young, Hoon Kim ^a,b   Heung, Sik Kang ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artifacts; CT; Data compression; Lung

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49149120869     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3350     Document Type: Article

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