The effect of averaging adjacent planes for artifact reduction in matrix inversion tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Godfrey, Devon J ^a   Page McAdams, H ^a   Dobbins III, James T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chest; MTF; NPS; pulmonary nodule; radiography; simulated nodule; three dimensional imaging; tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEPTUNIUM; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VISIBILITY;

CHEST; PULMONARY NODULES; SIMULATED NODULE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; LUNG; LUNG NODULE; MATRIX INVERSION TOMOSYNTHESIS; MEDIASTINUM; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISIBILITY; X RAY TUBE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84873606722     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4773891     Document Type: Article

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