Real-time compression of raw computed tomography data: Technology, architecture and benefits

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wegener, Albert ^a   Chandra, Naveen ^b   Ling, Yi ^a   Senzig, Robert ^b   Herfkens, Robert ^c  

^a Samplify Systems   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT cost savings; Image quality; Lossless compression; Lossy compression; Raw projection data

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSION RATIOS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA; COST SAVING; CT COST SAVINGS; CT DATA; CT PROJECTIONS; DATA SETS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES; DISK DRIVE; DUAL-CORE; HUFFMAN; LOSSLESS; LOSSLESS COMPRESSION; LOSSY COMPRESSION; LOSSY COMPRESSIONS; LOW-COMPLEXITY; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RAW PROJECTION DATA; REAL-TIME COMPRESSION; SLIP RINGS;

COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COSTS; DATA COMPRESSION; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PRISMS;

DATA COMPRESSION RATIO;

EID: 66749142505     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.810599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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