Analytic noise-propagation in indirect fan-beam FBP reconstruction

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2701-2704

  Borsdorf, Anja ^a   Kappler, Steffen ^b   Raupach, Rainer ^b   Hornegger, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

AVERAGE RELATIVE ERROR; CONVOLUTION KERNEL; DIFFUSION FILTERING; FBP RECONSTRUCTION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; MONTE CARLO RESULTS; PARALLEL PROJECTION; POSTPROCESSING METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61849179904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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