Statistical image reconstruction for transmission tomography using relaxed ordered subset algorithms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1533-1545

  Kole, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; X RAYS;

NORMALIZED MEAN SQUARE ERROR (NMSE); STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; SUBSET ALGORITHM; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17144362895     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/7/015     Document Type: Article

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