Computational analysis and improvement of SIRT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 918-924

  Gregor, Jens ^a   Benson, Thomas ^a,b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic methods; Iterative reconstruction; Parallel computing; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; DATA FUSION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY;

APPLIED (CO); COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSES; CONE BEAM (CB); CONVERGENCE RATES; DISTRIBUTED MEMORIES; EIGEN VALUES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-QUALITY IMAGING; MEMORY FOOTPRINTS; MICRO CT; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; OPTIMAL VALUES; ORDERED SUBSET (OS); RELAXATION PARAMETERS; RESIDUAL NORM; SIMULTANEOUS ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE (SIRT); WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES (WLS) PROBLEM; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (X-RAY CT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FEEDBACK; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MICE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 46349091958     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.923696     Document Type: Article

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