Penalized-likelihood sinogram restoration for computed tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1022-1036

  La Rivière, Patrick J ^a   Bian, Junguo ^a   Vargas, Phillip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Penalized likelihood; Sinogram restoration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RADIATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DECONVOLUTION CORRECTIONS; FOCAL RADIATION; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; SINOGRAM RESTORATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746927954     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.875429     Document Type: Article

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