Noise characterization of computed tomography using the covariance matrix

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages

  Brunner, Claudia C ^a,b   Hurowitz, Stefanie A ^c   Abboud, Samir F ^c   Hoeschen, Christoph ^b   Kyprianou, Iacovos S ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Covariance matrix; Detectability; Noise power spectrum; SNR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT SCANNERS; CT SCANNERS; CT SYSTEM; DETECTABILITY; EIGENANALYSIS; EIGENVECTORS AND EIGENVALUES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; NOISE CHARACTERIZATION; NOISE CORRELATION; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; SHIFT INVARIANCE; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SNR; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD METHOD; STATIONARITY; SYSTEM NOISE; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE RESULTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POWER SPECTRUM; SCANNING; STATISTICS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79953660322     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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