Statistical reconstruction for x-ray computed tomography using energy-integrating detectors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2247-2266

  Lasio, Giovanni M ^a   Whiting, Bruce R ^b   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENERGY INTEGRATING DETECTORS; NONLINEAR DETECTORS; STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION (SR) ALGORITHMS; X RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE QUALITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NOISE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34147138229     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/014     Document Type: Article

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