Noise reduction for low-dose single-slice helical CT sinograms

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1230-1237

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

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Helical computed tomography; KL transforms; Penalized weighted least squares; Sinogram noise reduction

Indexed keywords

HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; KL TRANSFORMS; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST-SQUARES; SINOGRAM NOISE REDUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE QUALITY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NOISE ABATEMENT; RADIATION HAZARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746333285     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.874955     Document Type: Article

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