Towards iterative reconstruction in clinical CT: Increased sharpness-to-noise and significant dose reduction owing to a new class of regularization priors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Bruder, H ^a   Raupach, R ^a   Sedlmair, M ^a   Wursching F ^a   Schwarz, K ^a   Stierstorfer, K ^a   Flohr, T ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; FBP based iterative reconstruction; Radiation exposure; Regularization prior; Sharpness to noise

Indexed keywords

CONE-BEAM CT; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULARIZATION PRIORS; SHARPNESS-TO-NOISE;

CONVOLUTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RADIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960263758     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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