Summation or axial slab average intensity projection of abdominal thin-section CT datasets: Can they substitute for the primary reconstruction from raw projection data?

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 422-432

  Lee, Kyoung Ho ^a,b   Hong, Helen ^c   Hahn, Seokyung ^b,d   Kim, Bohyoung ^a,b   Kim, Kil Joong ^a,b   Kim, Young Hoon ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

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

^c Seoul Women University   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computer assisted imaging; Computer assisted information storage and retrieval; Spiral computed image processing; Three dimensional image interpretation; Tomography

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS.; AVERAGE INTENSITIES; DATA SETS; PROJECTION DATUMS; SPIRAL COMPUTED-IMAGE PROCESSING; SQUARE ERRORS; TEST IMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL-IMAGE INTERPRETATION; TYPE TESTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; RESTORATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ARTICLE; AXIAL SLAB AVERAGE INTENSITY PROJECTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649124105     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9067-y     Document Type: Article

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