Image quality evaluation for radiation dose optimization in CR by shape and wavelet analyses

Abstract

It is one of the primary responsibilities of any department of diagnostic radiology to minimize the amount of unnecessary radiation administered to patients during diagnostic procedure. In this paper, we present three effective ways of quantifying the information content of computed radiography (CR) images for radiation dose optimization through shape and wavelet analyses. The experimental results demonstrate that the shape and wavelet analyses can be efficiently used to determine an optimum radiation dosage in computed radiography.