Noise suppression in scatter correction for cone-beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 741-752

  Zhu, Lei ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; QUALITY OF RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD; SCATTER DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BONE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 61349173033     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3063001     Document Type: Article

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