Iterative reconstruction of a region of interest for transmission tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1317-1327

  Ziegler, Andy ^a   Nielsen, Tim ^a   Grass, Michael ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Iterative; Maximum likelihood; Region of interest; Transmission tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CARDIAC CT; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHM; REGION OF INTEREST; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 41449104516     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2870219     Document Type: Article

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