Sinogram noise reduction for low-dose CT by statistics-based nonlinear filters

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue III, 2005, Pages 2058-2066

  Wang, Jing ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^b   Li, Tianfang ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

KL PWLS; Low dose CT; Sinogram noise reduction; Statistics based nonlinear filters; Streak artifacts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW PASS FILTERS; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONLINEAR FILTERING;

KL-PWLS; LOW-DOSE CT; SINOGRAM NOISE REDUCTION; STATISTICS-BASED NONLINEAR FILTERS; STREAK ARTIFACTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844506912     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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