Low-dose CT reconstruction via edge-preserving total variation regularization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 5949-5967

  Tian, Zhen ^a,b   Jia, Xun ^b   Yuan, Kehong ^a   Pan, Tinsu ^c   Jiang, Steve B ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEST PHANTOM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CT IMAGE; CT RECONSTRUCTION; DATA FIDELITY; EDGE PRESERVING; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGING DOSE; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; LOW DOSE; LOW-DOSE CT; MINIMIZING ENERGY; PENALTY WEIGHTS; RADIATION DOSE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; REGULARIZATION METHODS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOTAL VARIATION REGULARIZATION; X-RAY PROJECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SAFETY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SAFETY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052667571     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/18/011     Document Type: Article

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