Spatial resolution improvement and dose reduction potential for inner ear CT imaging using a z-axis deconvolution technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  McCollough, Cynthia H ^a   Leng, Shuai ^a   Sunnegardh, Johan ^b   Vrieze, Thomas J ^a   Yu, Lifeng ^a   Lane, John ^a   Raupach, Rainer ^b   Stierstorfer, Karl ^b   Flohr, Thomas ^b,c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

deconvolution; inner ear imaging; iterative reconstruction; spatial resolution; ultrahigh resolution (UHR)

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; BONE; COMB FILTERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECONVOLUTION; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHANTOMS;

DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; INNER EAR; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; SENSITIVITY PROFILES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

COPPER;

ACCREDITATION; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INNER EAR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE; THICKNESS; Z AXIS DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; EAR, INNER; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878933715     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4802730     Document Type: Article

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