Anatomical background and generalized detectability in tomosynthesis and cone-beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1948-1965

  Gang, G J ^a,b,c   Tward, D J ^b,c   Lee, J ^c   Siewerdsen, J H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical background; Anatomical clutter; Anatomical noise; Cascaded systems analysis; Cone beam CT; Detectability index; Imaging task; Noise equivalent quanta; Noise power spectrum; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMERCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTUM NOISE; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANATOMICAL BACKGROUND; ANATOMICAL CLUTTERS; ANATOMICAL NOISE; CASCADED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; CONE-BEAM CT; DETECTABILITY INDEX; IMAGING TASK; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77952363141     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3352586     Document Type: Article

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