Perfusion measurements by micro-CT using prior image constrained compressed sensing (PICCS): Initial phantom results

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2333-2350

  Nett, Brian E ^a   Brauweiler, Robert ^b   Kalender, Willi ^b   Rowley, Howard ^c   Chen, Guang Hong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED SENSING; CT IMAGING; CT SCANNERS; DOSE EFFICIENCY; DYNAMIC CT; EXPOSURE-TIME; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; GERMANY; HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT; IMAGE NOISE; IODINATED CONTRAST AGENTS; IRRADIATION TIME; LOWER NOISE; MICRO CT; NOISE VARIANCE; PERFUSION ANALYSIS; PERFUSION IMAGING; PERFUSION MEASUREMENTS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RAPID IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME FRAME; TISSUE PERFUSION;

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REPAIR; SCANNING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STANDARDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERFUSION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950559488     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/8/014     Document Type: Article

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