Penalized weighted least-squares image reconstruction for dual energy X-ray transmission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1075-1081

  Sukovic, Predrag ^a   Clinthorne, Neal H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BONE MINERAL DENSITOMETRY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; GAUSS-SEIDEL ALGORITHMS; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 0034310513     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.896783     Document Type: Article

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