On the use of a proton path probability map for proton computed tomography reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4138-4145

  Wang, Dongxu ^a   MacKie, T Rockwell ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

algebraic reconstruction; Bayesian inference; image reconstruction; most likely path estimation; pCT reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INFERENCE ENGINES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; GEANT4 SIMULATION; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERINGS; PATH ESTIMATION; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PCT);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROTONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78149487406     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3453767     Document Type: Article

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