Fast variance predictions for 3D cone-beam CT with quadratic regularization

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Zhang O'Connor, Yingying ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam tomography; Local discrete Fourier analysis; Penalized likelihood image reconstruction; Variance approximation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONE-BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; LOCAL DISCRETE FOURIER ANALYSIS; PENALIZED-LIKELIHOOD IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; VARIANCE APPROXIMATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148874305     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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