A statistical approach to high-quality CT reconstruction at low radiation doses for real-time guidance and navigation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Shetye, Avanti ^a,b   Shekhar, Raj ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Image reconstruction; Image guided procedure; Intraoperative guidance and navigation; Metal artifact reduction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT TREATMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURE; INTRAOPERATIVE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 35148858167     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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