Modulation transfer function-based assessment of temporal resolution: Validation for single- and dual-source CT

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1013-1017

  Ertel, Dirk ^a   Kröber, Evelyn ^a   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a   Langner, Oliver ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HEART RATE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51549107982     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2482072173     Document Type: Article

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