Imaging liver lesions using grating-based phase-contrast computed tomography with bi-lateral filter post-processing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Herzen, Julia ^a,b   Willner, Marian S ^b   Fingerle, Alexander A ^b   Noël, Peter B ^b   Köhler, Thomas ^c   Drecoll, Enken ^b   Rummeny, Ernst J ^b   Pfeiffer, Franz ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL FILTERING; EX VIVO STUDY; FATTY LIVER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRATING BASED PHASE CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HEMATOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84898405799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083369     Document Type: Article

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