Cascaded systems analysis of noise and detectability in dual-energy cone-beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5145-5156

  Gang, Grace J ^a,b   Zbijewski, Wojciech ^a   Webster Stayman, J ^a   Siewerdsen, Jeffrey H ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cascaded systems analysis; cone beam CT; detectability index; dual energy CT; image quality; imaging task; noise equivalent quanta; noise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IODINE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; POWER SPECTRUM; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTUM NOISE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TUMORS; X RAY DETECTORS;

CASCADED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; CONE-BEAM CT; DETECTABILITY INDEX; DUAL-ENERGY CT; IMAGING TASK; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864662388     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736420     Document Type: Article

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