Suppression of intensity transition artifacts in statistical x-ray computer tomography reconstruction through Radon inversion initialization

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-69

  Zbijewski, Wojciech ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FBP; Imaging; Iterative reconstruction; Maximum likelihood; Ordered subsets; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RADON; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; INTENSITY TRANSITIONS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ORDERED SUBSETS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

RADON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1642454598     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1631091     Document Type: Article

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