Noise power properties of a cone-beam CT system for breast cancer detection

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5317-5327

  Yang, Kai ^a   Kwan, Alexander L C ^b   Huang, Shih Ying ^a,c   Packard, Nathan J ^a,c   Boone, John M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computed tomography (CT); Cone beam; Image quality; Noise power spectrum (NPS)

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; POWER SPECTRUM;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; POLYETHYLENE CYLINDERS; RECONSTRUCTION FILTERS; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

EID: 56749160677     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3002411     Document Type: Article

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