Total variation superiorization schemes in proton computed tomography image reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5887-5895

  Penfold, S N ^a   Schulte, R W ^b   Censor, Y ^c   Rosenfeld, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

iterative projection methods; proton computed tomography; superiorization; total variation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DROPS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ITERATIVE PROJECTION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE PROJECTION METHODS; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERINGS; PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PCT); SUPERIORIZATION; TOTAL VARIATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 78149449856     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3504603     Document Type: Article

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