Penalized-likelihood sinogram smoothing for dose reduction in computed tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 992-1001

  La Rivière, Patrick J ^a   Vargas, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dose reduction; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

APODIZATION; CONSTRUCTION FILTER; DOSE REDUCTION; SMOOTHING;

DATA REDUCTION; DOSIMETRY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21144455572     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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