3D noise power spectrum applied on clinical MDCT scanners: Effects of reconstruction algorithms and reconstruction filters

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Miéville, Frédéric A ^a   Bolard, Gregory ^b   Benkreira, Mohamed ^a   Ayestaran, Paul ^c   Gudinchet, François ^a   Bochud, François ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Clinic of Genolier   (Switzerland)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

Author keywords

filtered back projection; image quality; iterative reconstruction; MDCT; metrics; noise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MDCT; METRICS; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; POWER SPECTRUM; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79955761502     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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