Quadraticr regularization design for 2-D CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 645-656

  Shi, Hugo R ^a,b   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Chicago Trading Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Fan beam computed tomography (CT); Iterative reconstruction; Local impulse response; Regularization; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

FAN-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LOCAL IMPULSE RESPONSE; REGULARIZATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RESTORATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65549100731     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2007366     Document Type: Article

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