Characterization of imaging performance in differential phase contrast CT compared with the conventional CT-Noise power spectrum NPS(k)

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4386-4395

  Tang, Xiangyang ^a   Yang, Yi ^a   Tang, Shaojie ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; imaging performance; modulation transfer function; noise; noise power spectrum; x ray; x ray differential phase contrast CT; x ray phase CT; x ray tube and grating based phase CT

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

IMAGING PERFORMANCE; NOISE; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; X-RAY DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST CT; X-RAY PHASE CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960277114     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3602071     Document Type: Article

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