Analytical evaluation of the signal and noise propagation in x-ray differential phase-contrast computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2219-2244

  Raupach, Rainer ^a   Flohr, Thomas G ^a,b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EVALUATION; BREAK-EVEN POINT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; LOW DOSE; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; NOISE PROPAGATION; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; PERFORMANCE RATIO; PHASE INFORMATION; PHASE WRAPPING; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL POINTS; TWO-MATERIALS; WORK FOCUS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952982338     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/7/020     Document Type: Article

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