Effects of the penalty on the penalized weighted least-squares image reconstruction for low-dose CBCT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 5535-5552

  Ouyang, Luo ^a   Solberg, Timothy ^a   Wang, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONEBEAM CT; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; EDGE PRESERVING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPONENTIAL FORM; HIGH-CONTRAST OBJECTS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; LOW DOSE; NOISE LEVELS; PENALTY TERM; QUADRATIC FORM; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIR ALGORITHM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; TOTAL VARIATION; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUMBER THEORY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 80052059361     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/17/006     Document Type: Article

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