Measurement of the MTF of a cone-beam breast computed tomography laboratory scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 703-713

  Mettivier, Giovanni ^a,b   Russo, Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; image quality; mammography

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ANGULAR POSITIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM; FIELD OF VIEWS; FINE PITCH; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; FOCAL SPOT SIZE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; MOTION BLUR; SAMPLE VOLUME; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEP-AND-SHOOT; TEST PATTERN; THIN METAL WIRES; TOMOGRAPHIC; TUBE CURRENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SCANNING; WIRE; X RAY TUBES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959379862     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2105503     Document Type: Article

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