Local and global 3D noise power spectrum in cone-beam CT system with FDK reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2122-2131

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

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam CT; FDK; nonstationary noise; NPS

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEPTUNIUM; POWER SPECTRUM;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CONE BEAM CT IMAGES; CONE-BEAM CT; FDK RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NOISE POWER ANALYSIS; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; SHARP TRANSITION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953648403     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3556590     Document Type: Article

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