Cone-beam volume CT breast imaging: Wavelet analysis-based multi-resolution reconstruction and de-noising technique

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 236-244

  Chen, Biao ^a   Ning, Ruola ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Computed tomography; Cone beam volume CT; De noising; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

X-RAY MAMMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036033568     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465564     Document Type: Article

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