A Poisson likelihood iterative reconstruction algorithm for material decomposition in CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Xu, Jingyan ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a   Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Iterative reconstruction; Material decomposition; Poisson likelihood

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 35148899749     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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