Metal artifact reduction in x-ray computed tomography (CT) by constrained optimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 701-711

  Zhang, Xiaomeng ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^b   Xing, Lei ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; image reconstruction; metal artifact; optimization

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; METALS; OPTIMIZATION; SET THEORY;

IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHMS; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; MINIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PROJECTION ONTO CONVEX SETS; RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79551662218     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3533711     Document Type: Article

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