Analysis of image sharpness reproducibility on a novel engineered micro-CT scanner with variable geometry and embedded recalibration software

Physica Medica

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-173

  Panetta, D ^a   Belcari, N ^b   Del Guerra, A ^b   Bartolomei, A ^c   Salvadori, P A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Argos Engineering srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geometric calibration; Image sharpness; Micro CT; Variable geometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DOSIMETRY; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; ENTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84858262440     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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