Statistical characteristics of streak artifacts on CT images: Relationship between streak artifacts and mA s values

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 492-499

  Imai, Kuniahru ^a   Ikeda, Mitsuru ^a   Enchi, Yukihiro ^b   Niimi, Takanaga ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gumbel distribution; Location parameter; Scale parameter; Statistics of extremes; Streak artifact

Indexed keywords

GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; LOCATION PARAMETERS; SCALE PARAMETER; STATISTICS OF EXTREMES; STREAK ARTIFACTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 59249104296     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3056554     Document Type: Article

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