Computed tomography commissioning programmes: How to obtain a reliable MTF with an automatic approach?

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 443-448

  Mieville F ^a   Beaumont, S ^b   Torfeh, T ^b   Gudinchet, F ^c   Verdun, F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b QualiFormeD SARL Department Hospital Center   (France)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953333396     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq050     Document Type: Article

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