Clinical low dose CT image reconstruction using high-order total variation techniques

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages

  Do, Synho ^a   Clem Karl, W ^b   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Brady, Thomas J ^a   Pien, Homer ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High order total variation; Iterative image reconstruction; Low dose imaging; MDCT; Staircase artifact; Total variation

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW DOSE; MDCT; STAIRCASE ARTIFACTS; TOTAL VARIATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STAIRS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79955779729     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844307     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Kalra, M., Maher, M., Toth, T., Hamberg, L., Blake, M., Shepard, J., and Saini, S., "Strategies for CT Radiation Dose Optimization," Radiology 230(3), 619 (2004).
2. Xu, J. and Tsui, B., "Elect ronie Noise Modeling in Statistical Iterative Reconstruction.," IEEE transactions on image processing: a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2009).
3. Geman, D. and Reynolds, G., "Constrained restoration and the recovery of discontinuities," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 14(3), 367-383 (1992).
4. Thibault, J., Sauer, K., Bouiuan, C, and Hsieh, J., "A three-dimensional statistical approach to improved image quality for multislice helical CT," Medical Physics 34, 4526 (2007).
5. Rudin, L., Osher, S., and Fatemi, E., "Nonlinear total variation based noise removal algorithms," Physica D 60(1-4), 259-268 (1992).
6. Donoho, D., "Superresolution via Sparsity Constraints," SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 23, 1309 (1992).
7. Chambolle, A. and Lions, P., "Image recovery via total variation minimization and related problems," Numerische Mathematik 76(2), 167-188 (1997).
8. Chan, T., Marquina, A., and Mulet, P., "High-order total variation-based image restoration," SIAM J. SCI. COMPUT 22(2), 503-516 (2001).
9. Lysaker, M. and Tai, X., "Iterative image restoration combining total variation minimization and a second-order functional," International Journal of Computer Vision 66(1), 5 18 (2006).
10. Do, S., Cho, S., Karl, W., Kalra, M., Brady, T., and Pien, H., "Accurate model-based high resolution cardiac image reconstruction in dual source CT," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI, 330-333 (2009).