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Figure 9. Profile of the ideal tissue boundary and the corresponding result at CT angiographic reformation. Reformation of CT angiographic data smoothes boundaries to an erf function. The corresponding gradient magnitude reaches its peak at the center of the boundary and decreases at both sides until becoming zero in areas corresponding to uniform tissues.
