A constrained, total-variation minimization algorithm for low-intensity x-ray CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Duchin, Yuval ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a   Ullberg, Christer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

compressive sensing; CT image reconstruction; iterative methods; low dose CT

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED SENSING; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PIXELS;

COMPRESSIVE SENSING; CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; LOW-DOSE CT; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; TOTAL VARIATION MINIMIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79960903981     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3560887     Document Type: Conference Paper

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