Reduction of noise-induced streak artifacts in X-ray computed tomography through spline-based penalized-likelihood sinogram smoothing

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-111

  La Rivière, Patrick J ^a   Billmire, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b EPIC SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Poisson distributions; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON STRAVATION; SINOGRAM SMOOTHING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11844305985     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.838324     Document Type: Article

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