Statistical sinogram smoothing for low-dose CT with segmentation-based adaptive filtering

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5 PART 1, 2010, Pages 2587-2598

  Zhang, Yuanke ^a   Zhang, Junying ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Low dose CT; maximum a posterior (MAP); noise reduction; segmentation; statistical sinogram smoothing

Indexed keywords

LOW-DOSE CT; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORS; NOISE REDUCTION; SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL SINOGRAM SMOOTHING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953811027     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2060356     Document Type: Article

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