Comparison of image quality in computed laminography and tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 794-806

  Xu, Feng ^a,b   Helfen, Lukas ^a,b   Baumbach, Tilo ^a   Suhonen, Heikki ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGULAR RANGE; COMPUTED LAMINOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; INCIDENT BEAMS; MISSING INFORMATION; NOISE LEVELS; PROJECTION ANGLES; PROJECTION IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; ROTATION ANGLES; ROTATION AXIS; SAMPLE SURFACE; SIMULATED IMAGES; VISIBLE IMAGE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84855934308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000794     Document Type: Article

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