Dual energy CT using slow kVp switching acquisition and prior image constrained compressed sensing

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 6411-6429

  Szczykutowicz, Timothy P ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149307669     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/21/005     Document Type: Article

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