Iterative deblurring for CT metal artifact reduction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 657-664

  Wang, Ge ^a   Snyder, Donald L ^a   O'Sullivan, Joseph A ^a   Vannier, Michael W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION; BACKPROJECTION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; ITERATIVE DEBLURRING; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; PROJECTION GAPS; REPROJECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030270864     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.538943     Document Type: Article

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