Noise texture and signal detectability in propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 270-281

  Chou, Cheng Ying ^a   Anastasio, Mark A ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Signal detection; X ray phase contrast tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL DETECTION; TEXTURES; X RAYS;

AUTOCOVARIANCE FUNCTIONS; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; RECONSTRUCTION FORMULAS; REFRACTIVE INDEX IMAGE; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 73649147359     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3267548     Document Type: Article

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