Dedicated breast computed tomography: Volume image denoising via a partial-diffusion equation based technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1950-1958

  Xia, Jessie Q ^a,b   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b,c   Yang, Kai ^d,e   Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a,b,c   Boone, John M ^d,e  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast CT; Breast imaging; PDE; Volume noise removal

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHANTOMS; QUANTUM NOISE; TEXTURES;

BREAST CT; BREAST IMAGING; DE-NOISING TECHNIQUES; NOISE REMOVAL; PARTIAL DIFFUSION; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 42949147528     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2903436     Document Type: Article

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