Penalized-likelihood sinogram smoothing for low-dose CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1676-1683

  La Rivière, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL LIMITATIONS; LINE INTEGRALS; LOW-DOSE CT; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; NOISY MEASUREMENTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; SINOGRAM SMOOTHING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; LUNG NODULE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCREENING;

EID: 21144458117     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1915015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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