Table 1.

Comparison of estimated DQM values to the calculated CNR values for the in vivo breast fibroadenoma and thyroid follicular carcinoma lesions. M, L and A denote multi-grid, lateral-guidance and axial-guidance approaches, respectively.

	Fig. 4(a)			Fig. 4(b)			Fig. 6(a)			Fig. 6(b)			Fig. 6(c)
	M	L	A	M	L	A	M	L	A	M	L	A	M	L	A
DQM	0.87	0.87	0.85	0.76	0.82	0.27	0.69	0.33	0.60	0.82	0.53	0.78	0.64	0.66	0.43
CNR	1.05	1.03	1.00	0.87	0.90	0.20	0.70	0.08	0.73	0.09	0.94	0.02	0.21	0.30	0.12