Characterization of imaging performance in differential phase contrast CT compared with the conventional CT: Spectrum of noise equivalent quanta NEQ(k)

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4467-4482

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; detective quantum efficiency; DQE.; imaging performance; modulation transfer function; MTF; NEQ; noise; noise equivalent quanta; noise power spectrum; NPS; x ray CT; x ray differential phase contrast CT; x ray phase CT; x ray tube and grating based phase CT

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODULATION; NEPTUNIUM; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; NOISE; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; X-RAY CT; X-RAY DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST CT; X-RAY PHASE CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864246621     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4730287     Document Type: Article

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