Investigation of a method to estimate the MTF and NPS of CT towards creating an international standard

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brunner, Claudia C ^a,b   Renger, Bernhard ^a   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; MTF; NPS; SNR

Indexed keywords

AXIAL PLANES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; CT SCANNERS; FOURIER; IEC STANDARDS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MTF; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NPS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SNR; SOURCE CURRENTS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TUNGSTEN WIRES; WATER PHANTOM;

ESTIMATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUNGSTEN;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955780959     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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