Band-Restricted estimation of noise variance in filtered backprojection reconstructions using repeated scans

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1097-1113

  Wunderlich, Adam ^a   Noo, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Estimation; Filtered backprojection (FBP); Noise; Variance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); CORRELATION PATTERNS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FILTERED-BACKPROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE VARIANCE; RESTRICTED ESTIMATION; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951774765     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2034961     Document Type: Article

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