A three-dimensional statistical approach to improved image quality for multislice helical CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4526-4544

  Thibault, Jean Baptiste ^a   Sauer, Ken D ^b   Bouman, Charles A ^c   Hsieh, Jiang ^a  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Computed tomography; Coordinate descent optimization; Iterative reconstruction; Maximum a posteriori; Multislice helical

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; COORDINATE DESCENT; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MULTI SLICES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 35649025312     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2789499     Document Type: Article

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