Sinogram preprocessing and binary reconstruction for determination of the shape and location of metal objects in computed tomography (CT)

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5867-5875

  Meng, Bowen ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^b   Xing, Lei ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; image reconstruction; iterative method; metal artifacts; sparse projections

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; METALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY GRADIENTS; METAL ARTIFACTS; NON-METALLIC SUBSTANCES; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SPARSE PROJECTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149448356     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3505294     Document Type: Article

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