The noise power spectrum in CT with direct fan beam reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2074-2081

  Baek, Jongduk ^a   Pelc, Norbert J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Direct fan beam reconstruction; Noise power spectrum (NPS); Nonstationary noise

Indexed keywords

POWER SPECTRUM;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; FAN-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION; FBP RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; NONUNIFORM NOISE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77952356186     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3378673     Document Type: Article

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