Multiscale penalized weighted least-squares sinogram restoration for low-dose X-ray computed tomography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1022-1031

  Wang, Jing ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^b   Wen, Junhai ^c   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Low dose; Multiscale analysis; Penalized weighted least squares (PWLS); Sinogram restoration; Wavelet transform; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAYS;

MULTISCALE ANALYSIS; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES (PWLS); SINOGRAM RESTORATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39749194408     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.909531     Document Type: Article

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