Scaling law for noise variance and spatial resolution in differential phase contrast computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 584-588

  Chen, Guang Hong ^a,b   Zambelli, Joseph ^a   Li, Ke ^a   Bevins, Nicholas ^a   Qi, Zhihua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; SCALING LAWS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVENTIONAL ABSORPTION; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST; INVERSE SQUARE LAW; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PROJECTION IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TALBOT-LAU INTERFEROMETER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79551654418     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3533718     Document Type: Article

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