NPS characterization and evaluation of a cone beam CT breast imaging system

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-40

  Benítez, Ricardo Betancourt ^a,b   Ning, Ruola ^a   Conover, David ^a   Liu, Shaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam computer tomography; Cone beam flat panel detector; Noise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ANALYTICAL CURVES; BACK PROJECTIONS; BREAST IMAGING SYSTEMS; CONE ANGLES; CONE BEAM COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM FLAT PANEL DETECTOR; CONE-BEAM CT; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; EXPOSURE LEVELS; ISOTROPIC NOISE; MATRIX SIZES; MATRIXES; NOISE IMAGES; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NOISY IMAGES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PIXEL SIZES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SCATTERING CORRECTIONS; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES; TWO PARAMETERS; VOXEL SIZES;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PIXELS; POWER SPECTRUM; RESTORATION; SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 65249102800     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/XST-2009-0213     Document Type: Article

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