Investigating the potential for super-resolution in digital breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Acciavatti, Raymond J ^a   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aliasing, super resolution; bar pattern phantom; Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT); filtered backprojection (FBP); Fourier transform; image reconstruction; spectral leakage

Indexed keywords

BAR PATTERN; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT); FILTERED BACKPROJECTION (FBP); FOURIER; SPECTRAL LEAKAGE; SUPER RESOLUTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PIXELS; SPECTROSCOPY;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 79955759140     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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