Electronic noise modeling in statistical iterative reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1228-1238

  Xu, Jingyan ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson distribution; Electronic noise; Low dose X ray CT; Sinogram restoration; Statistical image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND POISSON DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRONIC NOISE; LOW DOSE X-RAY CT; SINOGRAM RESTORATION; STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POISSON EQUATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; RESTORATION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349264710     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2017139     Document Type: Article

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