Image features for misalignment correction in medical flat-detector CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4918-4931

  Wicklein, Julia ^a   Kunze, Holger ^b   Kalender, Willi A ^a   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

flat detector CT (FDCT); image quality; misalignment correction

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; GABOR FILTERS; GEOMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; TEXTURES;

CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CO-OCCURRENCE FEATURES; ENTROPY-BASED METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FLAT DETECTORS; ON-LINE CALIBRATION; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; STRONG CORRELATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84864691298     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736532     Document Type: Article

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