Quantitative comparison of noise texture across CT scanners from different manufacturers

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6048-6055

  Solomon, Justin B ^a,c   Christianson, Olav ^a,c   Samei, Ehsan ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hock Plaza ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

CT; image quality; noise texture; NPS

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE TEXTURE; MANUFACTURE; NEPTUNIUM; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; TEXTURES;

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; NOISE TEXTURE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867302075     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4752209     Document Type: Article

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