Measurement of contrast-to-noise ratio for differential phase contrast computed tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages

  Zambelli, Joseph ^a   Bevins, Nicholas ^a   Qi, Zhihua ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CNR; Contrast to noise ratio; Differential phase contrast; Talbot Lau interferometer

Indexed keywords

BREAST TISSUES; CNR; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CT IMAGE; CT IMAGING; CT RECONSTRUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING; EXPOSURE LEVEL; GRATING INTERFEROMETERS; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; INDEX OF REFRACTION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; TALBOT-LAU INTERFEROMETER; X-RAY SOURCES;

INTERFEROMETERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE; WATER ABSORPTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859619653     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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