Low-dose 4DCT reconstruction via temporal nonlocal means

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1359-1365

  Tian, Zhen ^a,b   Jia, Xun ^b   Dong, Bin ^b   Lou, Yifei ^c   Jiang, Steve B ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT reconstruction; dose reduction; GPU; temporal nonlocal means

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COST FUNCTIONS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

4D-CT RECONSTRUCTION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DOSE REDUCTION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; FORWARD-BACKWARD SPLITTING ALGORITHM; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON-LOCAL MEANS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952131914     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3547724     Document Type: Article

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