A methodology for image quality evaluation of advanced CT systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wilson, Joshua M ^a   Christianson, Olav I ^a   Richard, Samuel ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; image analysis; iterative reconstruction; phantoms; tube current modulation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MODULATION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIFICATIONS; TEXTURES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

IMAGE QUALITY ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; TUBE CURRENT MODULATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; BODY SIZE; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

POLYETHYLENE;

BODY SIZE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84874781616     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4791645     Document Type: Article

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