Figure 6
Plot of normalized difference value (Einorm, blue diamonds) for the 19 scanned protocols overlaid over quality-plot (red dots) obtained from the simulation (described in §2.4). The normalized error has been calculated using the difference image of each protocol i with protocol B. The error bars for each protocol show the standard deviation of the error calculated for 205 of the 1024 slices. Note that the scale of the error was normalized to 20–100%, so that both the quality from the simulation and the error are directly comparable. The abscissa shows the scanning time in percentage of time used for the gold standard scan. Protocol T on the far left corresponds to the fastest scanning time, protocol B on the far right to the slowest. The protocols in between are shown from T–B for increasing percentage of the scanning time. |