A strategy for reduction of streak artifacts in low-dose CT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2743-2747

  Li, Tianfang ^a   Li, Xiang ^a,b   Xing, Yuxiang ^c   Lu, Hongbing ^c   Hsieh, Jiang ^c   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LOW-DOSE X-RAY CT; STREAK ARTIFACTS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARE (WLS);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844302217     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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