Evaluation of iterative sparse object reconstruction from few projections for 3-D rotational coronary angiography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1548-1555

  Hansis, Eberhard ^a,b   Schäfer, Dirk ^a   Dössel, Olaf ^b   Grass, Michael ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gated reconstruction; Image reconstruction; Iterative methods; Three dimensional coronary angiography; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENTS; BACKGROUND REDUCTIONS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHIES; CORONARY ARTERIES; FEW PROJECTIONS; GATED RECONSTRUCTION; ILL-POSED PROBLEMS; INPUT DATUM; OBJECT RECONSTRUCTIONS; QUANTITATIVE; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE PHANTOMS; SPARSE IMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 54949154867     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2006514     Document Type: Article

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