Noise/dose reduction and image improvements in screening virtual colonoscopy with tube currents of 20 mAs with nonlinear Gaussian filter chains

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4683, Issue , 2002, Pages 186-197

  Rust, Georg Friedemann ^a   Aurich, Volker ^b   Reiser, Maximilian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dose reduction; Edge preserving smoothing; Extreme low dose virtual colonoscopy; Image improvements; Noise reduction; Nonlinear filter; Radiation dosage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RADIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NONLINEAR GAUSSIAN FILTER CHAINS (NLGF);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036032163     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463582     Document Type: Article

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