A systematic approach towards the objective evaluation of low-contrast performance in MDCT: Combination of a full-reference image fidelity metric and a software phantom

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3166-3171

  Von Falck, Christian ^a   Rodt, Thomas ^a   Waldeck, Stephan ^b   Hartung, Dagmar ^a   Meyer, Bernhard ^a   Wacker, Frank ^a   Shin, Hoen Oh ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Image quality metric; Low contrast detectability; Software phantom; Virtual phantom

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTISCALE STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY INDEX; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHMS; GERMANY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866993059     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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